Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

Long-term ecological study (palaeoecology) to chronicle habitat degradation and inform conservation ecology: an exemplar from the Brecon Beacons, South Wales

(2013) F. M. Chambers et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Reconstructions of surface ocean conditions from the northeast Atlantic and Nordic seas during the last millennium

(2013) Laura K Cunningham et al.   HOLOCENE

Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

(2013) William J. Sutherland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

32Si dating of sediments from Lake Baikal

(2013) U. Morgenstern et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Changes in global nitrogen cycling during the Holocene epoch

(2013) Kendra K. McLauchlan et al.   NATURE

The 50 Most Important Questions Relating to the Maintenance and Restoration of an Ecological Continuum in the European Alps

(2013) Chris Walzer et al.   PLoS One

Quantitative reconstructions in palaeolimnology: new paradigm or sick science?

(2013) Steve Juggins   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Decomposing the mid-HoloceneTsugadecline in eastern North America

(2012) Robert K. Booth et al.   ECOLOGY

Matching a scientific knowledge base with stakeholders' needs

(2012) Gillian Petrokofsky et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Classifying black and white spruce pollen using layered machine learning

(2012) Surangi W. Punyasena et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Representation of flora and vegetation in Quaternary fossil assemblages: known and unknown knowns and unknowns

(2012) Stephen T. Jackson   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia

(2012) S. Rule et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

One hundred important questions facing plant science research

(2011) C. S. Grierson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change impacts on ecosystem functioning: evidence from an Empetrum heathland

(2011) Elizabeth S. Jeffers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

(2011) J. Zalasiewicz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Stability in Ecosystem Functioning across a Climatic Threshold and Contrasting Forest Regimes

(2011) Elizabeth S. Jeffers et al.   PLoS One

Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k

(2011) Simon P.E. Blockley et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Progress towards an automated trainable pollen location and classifier system for use in the palynology laboratory

(2011) K. Holt et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species' Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics

(2011) T. H. G. Ezard et al.   SCIENCE

Paleoecoinformatics: applying geohistorical data to ecological questions

(2011) Simon Brewer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Methods for collaboratively identifying research priorities and emerging issues in science and policy

(2011) William J. Sutherland et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Prioritizing research for trace pollutants and emerging contaminants in the freshwater environment

(2010) Kyle E. Murray et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

(2010) Jules Pretty et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Defining reference conditions and restoration targets for lake ecosystems using palaeolimnology: a synthesis

(2010) Helen Bennion et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Global occurrence trajectories of microfossils: environmental volatility and the rise and fall of individual species

(2010) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Reconciling pollen-stratigraphical and tree-ring evidence for high- and low-frequency temperature variability in the past millennium

(2010) Samuli Helama et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data

(2010) K.J. Willis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conservation paleobiology: putting the dead to work

(2010) Gregory P. Dietl et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

(2009) W. J. SUTHERLAND et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The toxicology of climate change: Environmental contaminants in a warming world

(2009) Pamela D. Noyes et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

The Nature of Evolutionary Radiations: A Case Study Involving Devonian Trilobites

(2009) Francine R. Abe et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Intercomparison of radiocarbon bomb pulse and 210Pb age models. A study in a peat bog core from North Poland

(2009) Natalia Piotrowska et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Abrupt climate change as an important agent of ecological change in the Northeast U.S. throughout the past 15,000 years

(2009) Bryan N. Shuman et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History

(2009) S. T. Jackson et al.   SCIENCE

Landscape change and resilience theory: a palaeoenvironmental assessment from Yunnan, SW China

(2008) J.A. Dearing   HOLOCENE

Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective

(2008) C.A. Froyd et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fossil Pollen as a Guide to Conservation in the Galapagos

(2008) J. F. N. van Leeuwen et al.   SCIENCE