About this Research Topic
One of the key challenges for palaeoecologists is to improve our understanding of when specific human activities, including hunting, land clearing and agriculture, began altering ecosystems at regional as well as global scales and to clarify how ecosystems responded in these human-mediated landscapes. In this Research Topic participants are welcomed to contribute palaeoecological records that address the following topics:
1) How do we identify the timing and ecological consequences of the initial period of human activity at (a) local, (b) regional to (c) global scales;
2) Examine new approaches that contribute to our understanding of the onset of human influence.
3) Illustrate the role that past human activity may have played in altering ecosystems from one state to another, creating tipping points for ecosystem change, or enhancing ecosystem resilience through conservation/restoration management.
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