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An experimental study by Nidhi Vastrad, Gayathri Rajendiran, Vivek Pandi Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Centre of Excellence, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, Karnataka, India Fire has shaped landscapes for millennia, influencing vegetation patterns, and long-term environmental change. But once the flames disappear, how do we trace the history of these ancient […]

Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SBRAS) is one of the centers for studying the history of Western Siberian landscapes. The biogeocenology laboratory of this institute has been using phytolith analysis for paleoenvironmental reconstruction for over 10 years. The laboratory’s research focuses on several key areas: Identifying indicators […]

The first Australian publication on plant silica particles arrived in 1903 (Chapman & Grayson), after which early phytolith research efforts took place in the niches of biological and earth sciences (Turnbull et al. 2023). The first formal institution to pioneer Australian phytolith research was the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which has locations […]

Biographical information. Alexandra Golyeva was born on October 11, 1958 in Syktyvkar in the family of a prominent soil scientist – I. V. Zaboeva. She graduated from the Soil Faculty of Moscow University. In 1987, she defended her candidate’s dissertation “Opal bioliths of podzolic soils of the middle taiga” under the supervision of academician G. […]