The Spanish Army, one of the most powerful navies of the Modern Age and a major agent of imperial expansion, relied on large-scale hemp cultivation and retting for the manufacture of ropes and sails The genetic identification of specific retting…
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The Caribbean mangroves: climatic, eustatic and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change
Mangroves are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Understanding how these ecosystems responded to past natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change is essential not only for understanding how extant mangroves have been shaped but also for informing their conservation.…
Tagged with: Caribbean, climate change, deforestation, Holocene, human impact, mangroves, Neotropics, paleoecology, palynology, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sea level
Posted in My publications, special issues
Posted in My publications, special issues
What do Easter Island, the Pyrenees and the Caribbean have in common?
This year, I have published a book on the prehistory of Easter Island, coedited with Christopher Stevenson, from the Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). The book has been issued by Springer Nature and is a collection of selected papers on the…
Tagged with: biogeography, Caribbean, Easter Island, ecology, Eocene, Europe, evolution, Holocene, Miocene, Neogene, Neotropics, Pacific, paleoecology, Paleogene, palynology, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Polynesia, Pyrenees, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation dynamics, vegetation responses
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula well before its domestication
A study shows that Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula in its wild form during the Upper Paleolithic and underwent two further introduction waves, one in the Neolithic and another in the Middle Ages, likely in cultivated forms The main routes…
Tagged with: biogeography, Bronze Age, Cannabis, Chalcolithic, cultivated, dispersal, hemp, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age, Mesolithic, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pleistocene, pollen, Roman Epoch, wild
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Posted in Cannabis, My publications
Quaternary has received its first CiteScore and is waiting for its Impact Factor Index
The open-access journal Quaternary was launched in 2018 and this year has received its first CiteScore from Scopus, which situates this publication among those with the greatest impact in the specialty In 2017, the scientific publisher MDPI commissioned me to…
Tagged with: anthropology, archaeology, biogeography, diversification, evolution, geochemistry, geomorphology, glaciations, Holocene, interglacials, paleoclimates, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sedimentology
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Posted in Journals
Plants launches a new special issue on mangroves
Mangroves are considered to be among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. These transitional land-sea wetland forests dominate tropical/subtropical coasts all over the world and are essential for the maintenance of terrestrial and marine biodiversity, as well as for the functioning…
Tagged with: biogeography, climate change, conservation, deforestation, ecology, evolution, Forests, global cgange, mangroves, paleoecology, restoration, subtropics, tropics
Posted in My publications, special issues
Posted in My publications, special issues
The best news of the year
The fourth annual edition of the 2% world’s most-cited scientists, also known as the Stanford ranking, has just been published. For the fourth consecutive year, I am listed in this ranking, this time within the top 0.5%. The index on…
Tagged with: citations, fake authorship, impact, performance, publication record, scopus, self-citation, self-propaganda
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
Origin and Evolution of Caribbean Mangroves
Mangroves are forested ecosystems living on intertidal coastal wetlands all over the tropics and subtropics, roughly between the parallels 25ºN and 25ºS. These communities are typically organized around a few dominant tree species, the mangrove-forming trees, and are transitional land-sea…
Tagged with: biogeography, Caribbean, dispersal, diversification, ecology, Eocene, evolution, Holocene, mangroves, Miocene, Neotropics, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, tropics, vicariance
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Posted in My publications
The Prehistory of Easter Island
This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and…
Tagged with: archaeology, biogeography, Botany, climate, deforestation, Drought, Easter Island, ecology, Enigmas, history, moai, paleoclimate, paleoecology, Raapanui, Rapa Nui, Transpacific Voyaging
Posted in archaeology, biodiversity, Books, My publications
Posted in archaeology, biodiversity, Books, My publications
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