"Paleoart, long considered peripheral to paleoscience, has become a powerful medium for visualizing extinct life and landscapes. Yet its historical trajectory has been dominated by zoocentric traditions, where plants are relegated to vague backdrops despite their central role in Earth system dynami...
"India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense anthropogenic pressure. Its unique geological history, once part of Gondwana and later colliding with Asia, has profoundly shaped its biota, resulting i...
"Bouldering is gaining popularity worldwide, but when practised outdoors, it can threaten local ecosystems and cause social conflicts, requiring effective management. In the Frankenjura region, one of Europe's most renowned climbing areas, the “Boulderappell” recommends specific behaviors to mitiga...
"One of the main objectives of ecological research is to enhance our understanding of the processes that lead to species extinction. A potentially crucial extinction pattern is the dependence of contemporary biodiversity dynamics on past climates, also known as “climate legacy”. However, the genera...
"India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense anthropogenic pressure. Its unique geological history, once part of Gondwana and later colliding with Asia, has profoundly shaped its biota, resulting i...
"For the last 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in interest among scientists and policymakers worldwide in the heritage significance of geology, particularly in the context of geoconservation, geotourism, and geopark initiatives. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of best...
"Mid‐ to higher‐latitude shallow marine environments are suggested to serve as refugia fororganisms during intervals of rapid environmental change associated with hyperthermals. To understand therole of these environments during hyperthermals, we herein investigate the Permian–Triassic environmenta...
👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project" is published in Paleobiology. "Paleontology provides insights into the history of the planet, from the origins of life ...
"The impact of strongly differentiated populations on species delimitation due to limited or sex-biased dispersal remains challenging and under-explored in the framework of integrative taxonomy. The Mediterranean chafer beetle genus Pachypus is remarkable for its extreme female philopatry...
"A predictive ecological response to both the present and past climate crises is that marine ectotherm species will become smaller before going extinct or fluctuate in abundance and size with environmental conditions. The problem with studying past climate events with high rates and magnitude of wa...
