This study presents stable isotope analysis of carbon (δ 13 C) and oxygen (δ 18 O) from goat, sheep, and cattle teeth excavated from the Bronze Age village of Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus. The δ 18 O of local water sources and converted δ 18 O drinking water values are used to demonstrate the dietary inputs for goats as compared to those for sheep and cattle. We infer the browsing and grazing behavior of these taxa to reflect d...

The aim of this research is to compile a database of vascular plants found in the Kingdom of Tonga in western Polynesia, a phyto‐geographic subregion of the South Pacific. The Tongan islands are spread over ~600,000 km 2 of the Pacific Ocean between 15–23° S latitude and 173–177° W longitude. The archipelago is comprised of 171 islands with an aggregate land area of about 720 km 2 . Since there is no comprehensive or updated f...

We explore the dispersal ecology of the tropical lowland rain forest on the Vava'u island group, Kingdom of Tonga, to understand dispersal adaptations across successional vegetation types and by species origin. We utilise quantitative data on the relative plant abundance (basal area for overstorey and cover for understorey) of forest species from 64 600‐m 2 vegetation plots on 13 islands. Frequencies of species by dispersal me...

Aim To explore the relationship between modern pollen precipitation and vegetation patterns in an arid region of the Middle East. Location Data come from the central Jordan Rift from 1700 m elevation in the highlands to 300 m below sea level in the Dead Sea basin. Methods Modern pollen samples and descriptive vegetation data were collected from twenty‐one locations at 100 m elevational intervals from the highest elevations on...

This study focuses on the relationships between plant dispersal syndromes and plant distributions at the community scale. Species composition and cover are reported from 29 10 × 20‐m vegetation plots along five topographic cross‐sections in the riparian zone of the Hassayampa River Preserve, Arizona. We find that spatial patterns of dispersal guilds vary within the flood plain of this semiarid region river. Our main results ar...

Pollen and plant macrofossils from the Keystone Ironbog are used to document changes in species composition and the dynamics of the subalpine forest in western Colorado over the past 8000 years. Modern pollen spectra (particularly pollen influx), plant macrofossils, observations on modern species composition, and quantified densities and mean basal areas of forest trees are used to interpret the paleoecology of the forest. Fro...