Sphagnum farming on cut-over bog in NW Germany: Long-term studies on Sphagnum growth [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2017 Sphagnum farming allows sustainable and climate-friendly land use on bogs while producing a renewable substitute for peat in horticultural growing media.
G. Gaudig, M. Krebs, H. Joosten
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Species-abundance models for brachiopods across the Ordovician–Silurian boundary of South China [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2014 Species-abundance models have been an important method for investigating community structure in modern biology in the past decades. Different species-abundance models can reflect different ecological meanings.
Bing Huang, Renbin Zhan
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The Microvertebrates of Shanidar Cave: Preliminary Taphonomic Findings
Quaternary, 2022 Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in Southwest Asia. This is due to the long sequence of hominin occupation of the cave and the discovery of multiple Neanderthal individuals from the original Solecki ...
Emily Tilby +2 more
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Peatland restoration based on a landscape (palaeo)ecological system analysis (LESA): the case of Aamsveen, eastern Netherlands [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2022 The Dutch Aamsveen lies in a glacial basin in the Dutch-German border area. It consists of remnants of a cross-border raised bog and a lagg with degrading species-rich basiphilous plant communities.
Jan Sevink +2 more
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The York System: An integrated zooarchaeological database for research and teaching
Internet Archaeology, 2003 This article presents the York System, a database used for recording animal bones. It is based on the recording protocol used at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, and incorporates that used at the former Environmental Archaeology Unit ...
Jennifer F. Harland +4 more
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Roots, Tissues, Cells and Fragments—How to Characterize Peat from Drained and Rewetted Fens
Soil Systems, 2020 We present analyses of macroscopic and microscopic remains as a tool to characterise sedge fen peats. We use it to describe peat composition and stages of peat decomposition, to assess the success of rewetting of a formerly drained fen, and to understand
Dierk Michaelis +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we present a new radiocarbon dated record from Lake Fimon (NE-Italy)
Federica Badino +9 more
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Severe Plane-Form Enamel Hypoplasia in a Dentition from Roman Britain
Dental Anthropology, 2017 Enamel defects can provide insight into the life histories of past individuals and populations, including information on a wide range of disturbances during childhood.
Ian Towle +3 more
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Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their ...
Chang-Fu Zhou +5 more
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DataSheet_4_Practitioner perspectives on the application of palaeoecology in nature conservation.zip
, 2023 It is widely recognised that palaeoecology holds great potential to inform and support nature conservation, but that there are difficulties in knowledge exchange between academia and practitioners that inhibit the operationalisation of research.
Ben Siggery (17371303) +4 more
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