Aim Understanding environmental change over large spatial and temporal scales requires working at a broad ecological scale to enable cross‐site comparisons. This allows data‐based comparisons to dynamic vegetation model outputs, with utility for climate and land cover modelling. We synthesise multisite pollen data at the biome level to understand Equatorial Afromontane ecosystem response to climate change over the last 50,000...

Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed to changes in farming practices, and organic and low‐input farming are assumed to mitigate detrimental effects of agricultural intensification on biodiversity. Since the farm enterprise is the primary unit of agricultural decision making, managem...

Pollen, charcoal, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope, and radiocarbon analyses are used to reconstruct a palaeoenvironmental record from the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM), Tanzania, dating back >45 000 years. A sedimentary hiatus covering the last glacial‐interglacial transition (LGIT) and early to mid Holocene follows the lead up to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period. A late Holocene portion of the record is included as a mo...