It is very sad to lose a close colleague who is in his scientific prime. It is also very shameful to realize the poor coverage that local media and scientific institutions, including his own, have devoted to the decease of…
Yearly Archives: 2021
Antoni Rosell-Melé
Tagged with: biomarkers, climate change, organic chemistry, paleoceanography, Pleistocene, Pliocene
Posted in People, Science
Posted in People, Science
Is the sixth mass extinction coming?
Does the current anthropogenic biodiversity crisis really qualify as a mass extinction? Many people now uncritically accept the reality of a sixth mass extinction, but others contend that this is an unrealistic exaggeration by environmental alarmists. The IUCN (International Union…
Tagged with: anhtropogenic extinction, biodiversity, biodiversity crisis, extinction, last centuries, mass extinction, sixth mass extinction
Posted in anthropocene, biodiversity, My publications, Society
Posted in anthropocene, biodiversity, My publications, Society
The success of Neotropical Diversification
Springer Nature has just reported that our book entitled “Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes“, included in the collection “Biomedical and Life Sciences”, is being highly successful within the scientific community. Since its publication in 2020, the book has received more…
Tagged with: algae, animals, biodiversity, Caribbean, Central America, diversification, Neotropics, North America, plants, South America
Posted in biodiversity, Books, My publications
Posted in biodiversity, Books, My publications
Medieval forest dynamics in the Pyrenees
A recent study challenges the idea that present-day Pyrenean landscapes are the result of large-scale anthropogenic deforestation and land degradation that occurred during the Middle Ages. High-resolution (decadal) pollen analysis of sediments from two lakes situated in the lowest (Montcortès)…
Tagged with: conifers, fire, Forests, high-resolution, Iberian Peninsula, Landscape anthropization, last millennium, Middle Ages, palynology, pines, Pyrenees
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
New book on Easter Island’s prehistory
The book “The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework” (Springer Nature), edited by V. Rull and C.M. Stevenson, has been sent to the press and will be issued early next year This book addresses the…
Tagged with: archaeology, biogeography, climate change, cultural collapse, deforestation, demography, Easter Island, ecology, history, human disturbance, last centuries, last millennium, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, prehistory, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
The extinction of science
The current revival of Bernalism and the use of market-based scientific practices are undermining science as we know it. Read the full paper at: Rull, V. 2016. Free science under threat. EMBO Reports, 17: 131-135.
Tagged with: applied science, basic science, Bernalism, Free science, fundamental science, Science
Posted in My publications, Science, Society
Posted in My publications, Science, Society
Montcortès: a unique Mediterranean paleoecological record of the last 3000 years
The Pyrenean Lake Montcortès sediments hold the longest continuous and absolutely varve-dated record of the Mediterranean region, encompassing the last three millennia, from the Late Bronze Age to the present. The high-resolution paleoecological reconstruction of the Montcortès sequence using pollen…
Tagged with: anthropization, Bronze Age, climate change, Contemporary Times, cultivation, deforestation, ecology, fire, grazing, hemp Cannabis, human disturbance, Iron Age, lad use, Last millenia, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Montcortès, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, retting, Roman Empire, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
High-mountain forest resilience
Some high-elevation Pyrenean forests remained virtually pristine during the last 4000 years Palynological analysis of the last ca. 4300 cal yr BP using a sediment core taken from high mountain (ca. 1900 m elevation) Lake Sant Maurici sediments (southern-central Pyrenees)…
Tagged with: Catalonia, Conifer forests, Europe, Forests, High mountains, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, lakes, Late Holocene, National Parks, palynology, PNAESM, pollen analysis, Pyrenees, Resilience, sediments
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Spatiotemporal gradients in the anthropization of Pyrenean landscapes
Pyrenean landscapes were anthropized gradually, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, following a general elevational pattern, from lowlands to highlands. Human settlement, as derived from archaeological evidence, may occur much earlier than irreversible anhtropogenic transformation of landscape, as…
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, human disturbance, Landscape anthropization, Late Holocene, natural resources, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
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