Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record | PNAS pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Wondering what Australia might look like in a hotter world? Take a glimpse into the distant past theconversation.com/wondering-what… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Great article discussing the reconstruction of ancient Australia:

'When trying to understand the dispersion of first humans in Sahul, one overlooked aspect has been the impact of the changing landscape itself. '

Article: buff.ly/4deqeIX
#heritagematters /mc

The first peoples of the Atacama Desert lived among the trees: A 11,600- to 11,200-year-old grove and congregation site | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Wild bees are under threat from domestic bees, invasive species, pathogens and climate change — but we can help theconversation.com/wild-bees-are-…

Wondering what Australia might look like in a hotter world? Take a glimpse into the distant past theconversation.com/wondering-what…

Understanding wildfires demands a holistic approach akin to meteorology and climatology. We need integrated fire observations, behavior predictions, and risk assessments for effective fire management.
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#WildfireMonitoring #FireSafety

Fire | Free Full-Text | Detecting, Monitoring and Foreseeing Wildland Fire Requires Similar Multiscale Viewpoints as Meteorology and Climatology mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/4/…

‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago | Fossils | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.

✍️ Tristan Salles (@Sydney_Uni) + colleagues (@Flinders, Southern Cross University, Université Grenoble Alpes) theconversation.com/we-reconstruct…

Colonization of Sahul by Homo sapiens is an ongoing topic of research. Salles et al. model the environment through time in combination with Lévy walk foraging patterns to suggest a wave of dispersal following coastlines and rivers.
Tristan Salles
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Modern pollen rain reveals differences across forests, open and mosaic landscapes in Madagascar - Razafimanantsoa - 2024 - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fire incongruities can explain widespread landscape degradation in Madagascar's forests and grasslands - Joseph - 2024 - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Can rewilding with giant tortoises increase woody habitat and limit fire across Madagascar's grasslands? - Joseph - 2024 - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mangrove trees are really strong - see the evidence in Jack Hill's new paper authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived theconversation.com/ancient-nomads…

New rock art discoveries in Eastern Sudan tell a tale of ancient cattle, the ‘green Sahara’ and climate catastrophe theconversation.com/new-rock-art-d…

Impacts of fire and prospects for recovery in a tropical peat forest ecosystem | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023 theconversation.com/vastly-bigger-…