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How animal dung can help to reconstruct past forest use: a late Neolithic case study from the Mooswinkel pile dwelling (Austria)
Animal dung analyses are a useful tool for vegetational studies. Preserved ruminant dung from archaeological layers offers a unique possibility for...
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The first archaeobotanical evidence of Medicago sativa L. in China: hay fodder for livestock
Three piles of shoots, leaves, and pods were discovered in the Zagunluk cemetery (about AD 100–400 based on 14C dating), **njiang, NW China....
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Perceived naturalness predicts public support for sustainable protein technology
The widespread demand for animal-sourced foods poses challenges in addressing climate change due to their significant greenhouse gas emissions....
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The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II
Non-woody plant remains are known from burial contexts in North–western Europe, but get overlooked when preservation is suboptimal. While phytolith...
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Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity
Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, and research has shown that plant diversity can help mitigate the impacts of climate change by...
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Ewes of a leather flock together. Feeding management systems during Late Antiquity in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula (4th c. – 8th c. AD): a dental microwear approach
In recent years, the dental microwear analysis technique has been proven as an approach for contributing to animal husbandry research. It has been...
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Investigating the palaeoenvironmental context of Late Pleistocene human dispersals into Southeast Asia: a review of stable isotope applications
We review palaeoenvironmental applications of stable isotope analysis to Late Pleistocene archaeological sites across Southeast Asia (SEA), a region...
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Forage quality profiling of pre-selected alfalfa genotypes: towards genetic enhancement and adaptation for arid dryland farming
This study addresses the challenge of arid conditions in drylands by focusing on fortifying the resilience of alfalfa within an ongoing varietal...
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Stabilization of Adobes by Plant Fibers
Adobe mud blocks are one of the oldest used earthen building materials across geographies. These earthen building materials derive their mechanical...
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Ruminant contribution to enteric methane emissions and possible mitigation strategies in the Southern Africa Development Community region
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region is not a major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). However, Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a...
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Functional Diversity of Alpine Meadow Under Simulated Warming and Grazing
The response of biodiversity and biological function under global change has been a hot spot of ecological research in recent years. We selected...
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Stabilizers for Earthen Building Materials
Inadequacy of soils with respect to key properties is overcome by mechanical and chemical modification to improve the strength, durability, and...
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Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark
Through archaeobotanical analysis and discussion of the abundant charred macrofossils in samples from a burnt down four-post structure at an Early...
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Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology
The functional ecology of arable weeds provides a way of comparing present-day and past farming regimes. This paper presents the R package WeedEco,...
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Grassland Monitoring Based on Geobotanical, Ground, Spectrometric, and Satellite Data
AbstractThis study assesses the possibility of grassland monitoring based on various spectral vegetation indices (NDVI, ClGreen, NDRE, and NDMI)...
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Spatial analysis of remote sensing and meteorological indices in a drought event in southwestern Spain
The effects of global warming and climate change are being felt through more extreme and prolonged periods of drought. Multiple meteorological...
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General Conclusions
This chapter presents a general summary of the work carried out in this book. It begins by highlighting the key soil properties that determine the...
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Addressing the Impacts of Inland Floods on Informal Housing in Honiara, Solomon Islands
In this chapter, building resilience of informal housing is explored based on the case of Honiara, Solomon Islands. Informal housing is severely...
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Grass that Changed the World
Once on a mountaineering trip to Mt Aspiring in a remote part of the South Island of New Zealand, we were lucky enough to have 10 consecutive days of...