Pleistocene climatic oscillations favoured the expansion of grassland ecosystems and open vegetation landscapes throughout the Neotropics, and influenced the evolutionary history of species adapted to such environments. In this study, we sampled populations of the rodent Oxymycterus nasutus endemic to open areas in the Pampas and Atlantic Forest biomes to assess the tempo and mode of population...

Several papers have now estimated the impact of climate change on national timber markets, but few studies have measured impacts globally. Further, the literature on impacts has focused heavily on changes in productivity and has not integrated movements of biomes as well. Here, a dynamic model of ecological change and economic change is developed to capture the impact of climate change on world...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org H have long distinguished themselves from other species by shaping ecosystem form and process using tools and technologies, such as fire, that are beyond the capacity of other organisms (Smith 2007). This exceptional ability for ecosystem engineering has helped to sustain unprecedented human population growth over the past half cent...

[1] The causes for the Permian‐Triassic Boundary (PTB) extinction, the largest mass extinction on record, remain enigmatic. The period is marked by large‐scale volcanic eruptions and evidence for widespread ocean anoxia, which have led to suggestions that these events generated, or played a part in, the extinction. Furthermore, hypercapnia and ocean acidification caused by volcanic emissions of...