"Current research on microplastics (MPs) primarily focuses on investigating environmental samples, often lacking in identifying the actual sources and emission quantities. Little is known about the quantity of bicycle tire abrasion in real-use scenarios. Mountain biking, a popular outdoor sport pro...
"Natural history museums do more than showcase fossils and stuffed animals. They are vital research institutions that drive conservation, education, and discovery. Around the world, these museums serve as archives of life itself, preserving biological and fossil specimens that help scientists track...
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Human pressures are driving the emergence of unprecedented, ‘novel’, ecological and environmental systems. The concept of novel (eco)systems is well accepted by the scientific community, but the use and measurement of novelty has outgrown initial definitions and critiques. There are ...
"Terrestrial ecosystems underwent extreme shifts in composition following the extensive degassing associated with the Siberian Traps near the Permian-Triassic Boundary (PTB). These climatic perturbations are recorded in land plant macrofossil assemblages, which reflect complex changes in major biom...
"The tectonic re-equilibration after the Variscan orogeny coincided with widespread early Permian post-collisional magmatism in southern Europe. A full understanding of the origin of this magmatism in the South Variscan realm and its relationship to major tectonic events such as subduction, contine...
"Reefs are important hotspots of marine biodiversity today, and acted as cradles of diversification in the geological past. However, we know little about how the diversity of reef-supporting regions varied through deep time, and how this differed from other regions. We quantified regional diversity...
"Cliffs, all over the world, are often exceptionally rich in endemic, rare and endangered plant species. Historically, cliffs have been among the least human-disturbed habitats, but they now face increasing direct and indirect pressures. Human activities, such as recreational rock climbing, can lea...
"Both natural and human-induced stressors cause reef erosion, resulting in reef rubble formation. When consolidated, the rubble can facilitate reef recovery, sparking interest in artificial rubble stabilization as a method for reef restoration. However, our understanding of the natural processes go...
"Disturbance events such as volcanic eruptions modify ecosystems by changing the physical environment and resource availability. However, there is a notable lack of paleontological research addressing disturbance ecology in volcanic habitats. This study addresses the under-researched field of distu...
"Amid global challenges like climate change, extinctions, and disease epidemics, science and society require nuanced, international solutions that are grounded in robust, interdisciplinary perspectives and datasets that span deep time. Natural history collections, from modern biological specimens t...
