In our latest paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, we provide sound evidence for agriculture and livestock farming in the São Miguel Island by 1290, about a century and a half prior to its official settlement. The most accepted date…
Monthly Archives: February 2017
The Azores Islands were populated a century and a half before their official colonization
Tagged with: agriculture, animal husbandry, Azores Islands, deforestation, discovery, human colonization, human impact, human settlement, lake sediments, last centuries, laurisilva, livestock raising, Macaronesia, oceanic islands, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, reforestation, research paper, vegetation change, volcanic eruptions, volcanic islands
Posted in Research papers
Posted in Research papers
Neotropical diversification – the book
In November 2016, Springer contacted me to write a book on neotropical diversification. I proposed an edited book including as many views as possible on this fascinating topic and inivted Ana Carnaval, from the City University of New York, to…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climatic change, diversification, extinction, Mesoamerica, Neogene, Neotropics, paleogeography, Pleistocene, Quaternary, South America, speciation, tectonics, tropical America
Posted in Books
Posted in Books
A book on the “Anthropocene” is coming
Is the “Anthropocene” the new geological epoch in which we live? Is the current human footprint on recent rocks conspicuous and widespread enough to define a new unit of the geological time scale? Should we define a new epoch or…
Tagged with: anthropocene, anthroposphere, climate change, environmental degradation, geological time scale, global change, human disturbance, human evolution, human footprint, international chronostratigraphic chart, natural resources, nature overexploitation, new epoch, popular science, resource exhaustion
Posted in Books
Posted in Books
