Our (myself, Simon Haberle Feli Hopf Dave McWethy etal.) new study from SE Australia shows #Indigenous cultural burning (not climate) specifically promoted mallee eucalypt woodland and not tall eucalypt forest in the Holocene. Link: doi.org/10.1007/s00334…

The first paper of my PhD is out today! We look at how islands around Australia have changed in the last 65 thousand years, through changing sea levels. Thanks to all who have provided great discussion over this question! CRAR+M Rock Art Prof Jo.McDonald sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Another big nature pattern unveiled: pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal-pollinated flowering plants. Thanks nicolaycunha for sharing this adventure. See more at doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1…

If only Firstdog Onthemoon was at INQUARoma2023! They would no doubt win the Best Poster prize 🏆 with this contribution! #INQUARoma2023 SCIENTIFIC KERFUFFLE ALERT! When did the Anthropocene begin and what is a golden spike?! | First Dog on the Moon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Happy to share a new paper led by Anne de Vareilles combining archaeobotany and palynology to investigate the impacts of early agriculture on biodiversity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… #landuse #pollen Historic England Dr Ruth Pelling

Our (myself, Simon Haberle et al) new study shows that the coexistence of forest and treeless vegetation in #Tasmania rainforest area is due to edaphic conditions and not burning, as implied by the #AlternativeBiomeState framework. Link to paper: tinyurl.com/TasFor

Our (myself, Simon Haberle etal) new study on Late Pleistocene #megafauna extinction in Australian mainland is just out. We 📌 extinction 🕰️ to ~43ka, caused by landscape burning and extinction in turn drove 🌱 changes. doi.org/10.1016/j.quas…

The archaeology of orality: Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our (myself Simon Haberle etal.) new study from NW Tasmanian islands show that #Indigenous people shaped landscape in the area in that last 2ka (not climate), resulting in mosaic landscape of open and close 🌱 communities. Link: doi.org/10.1080/155648…

Our new PNASNews paper shows that seasonally dry tropical forest mosaics rather than #savanna grew in Southeast Asia's lowlands during the #LGM pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🏝️In our new paper we explore trends in floristic similarity between 15 sites, on 13 South Pacific islands over the last 5000 years nature.com/articles/s4155… 🖌️illustration by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte

Our new global meta-analysis NatureEcoEvo shows wild #megafauna shape #ecosystem properties & promote spatial heterogeneity nature.com/articles/s4155… 🦬🌿🐘🍃🦌🪲🪱🌐Big thx Jonas Trepel & Erick Lundgren for leading this work! ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence #herbivores #ecology #soil #vegetation

Another great multidisciplinary study from the #Azores led by Simon Connor is out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Feeling grateful for the opportunity to be part of this work from a rather stunning place!

Interesting study on #island biogeography and #biodiversity led by Simon Connor ANU CHL ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A huge congratulations to Dr Matthew Adeleye (Matthew Adeleye) who have been awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship 👏 #UKRIFLF

There is currently a 2-year post-doc position to do some palaeoecology work in the Conservation palaeoecology Lab at Cambridge. More information here jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48010/