Movement of rivers, mountains, oceans and sediment nutrients at the geological timescale are the central drivers of Earth's biodiversity, research published in Nature has revealed. The research also ...

Madagascar is home to more than 11,000 plant species, 80% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH ...

Climatically driven landscape evolution during warm periods New puzzle piece for understanding future natural systems Date: September 17, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Analyses of landscape change patterns that are based on elevation and slope can not only provide reasonable interpretations of landscape patterns but can also help to reveal evolutionary laws. However ...

A fresh examination of landscape evolution casts new light on migration of the first humans to Sahul – the expansive single landmass including Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania that existed up to ...

Regolith—the veneer of weathered rock and sediment that overlies bedrock—forms the interface in which soils develop and landscapes are sculpted. Its genesis begins with the physical disaggregation of ...