"During the 70-million-year span of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations, low ocean temperatures beneath global sea ice increased water viscosity up to fourfold. In the absence of adaptation, unicellular organisms living in this viscous environment were limited in their ability to move and acq...
"Sport and physical activity are seen as important drivers for social transformation and enablers of sustainable development, i.e., as important means of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (WHO, 2018; United Nations, 2015). This is often concretized in relation to the special con...
Insights from the authors of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report on knowledge gaps and priorities for research
"As climate change impacts intensify globally in both frequency and magnitude, and with scientific consensus on what is yet to come if theworld fails to act, the imperative to step up our co...
"The late Kungurian succession of Gorl in the Southern Alps yielded more than 200 plant fossils. The remains are very fragmented but occasionally exceptionally well-preserved with cuticle. The morphological and cuticular analyses confirm the presence of some seed ferns (Lodevia, Peltaspermum, Sphen...
"During the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, the area around Bristol and South Wales was an archipelago of islands occupied by diverse small-sized tetrapods. The largest of these palaeo-islands was Mendip Island, now forming the Mendip Hills, and the location of some famous fossiliferous sites. Th...
"The increasing popularity of digital media among protected area visitors poses challenges to protected area management. It alters the way visitors move and behave in the area, potentially increasing disturbance of nature, and it might also affect their expectation prior to the visit and their refl...
"The increasing similarity of plant species composition among distinct areas is leading to the homogenization of ecosystems globally. Human actions such as ecosystem modification, the introduction of non-native plant species and the extinction or extirpation of endemic and native plant species are ...
"Here we describe the first articulated olenid trilobite specimens recovered from the lowermost Fezouata Shale Formation (lower Tremadocian, Ordovician) of Morocco. Prior to the discovery of this sample, only two partial olenid trilobite specimens had been found from this part of the rock record. T...
"The Upper Jurassic Plattenkalk deposits of the Solnhofen Limestone of Bavaria in southern Germany, one of the most productive Fossillagerstätten worldwide, are widely believed to be devoid of palynomorphs or to contain only poorly preserved organic matter. A first palynological study of sediments ...
"Red Queen (RQ) theory states that adaptation does not protect species from extinction because their competitors are continually adapting alongside them. RQ was founded on the apparent independence of extinction risk and fossil taxon age, but analytical developments have since demonstrated that age...
