Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and foraging to burning the farming industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human reshaped global patterns biodiversity, ecosystems, landscapes, climate. This review examines recent evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, environmental history, model-based reconstructions that reveal a planet largely tra...

The only available theoretical model explaining the natural development of lakes is a set assumptions underlying so-called lake aging concept (LAC). It incorrectly states that with time, age and are inevitably unidirectionally subject to eutrophication processes. In its most radical version, it misidentifies eutrophication, i.e., an increase in productivity resulting from enrichment nutrients, ...

The Proboscidea were very prominent in South American ecosystems during the Pleistocene and part of Holocene. Specifically, Valle del Cauca (Colombia), fossils these large mammals have been found, reflecting an abundant presence region. In this work, a mandibular fragment with complete last molar (m3) is reported, found near bed River, Juanchito municipality Santiago de Cali. According to morph...