According to the current paradigm, the remote and enigmatic Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have been discovered and settled by Polynesian sailors between about 800 and 1200 CE. However, recent studies using the latest genomic,…
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Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Pre-order the book on Pantepui biodiversity
The book entitled “Biodiversity of Pantepui: the Pristine Lost World of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands” (Eds., V. Rull, T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia, O. Huber and J.C. Señaris) has been finished and is now in production by Elsevier/Academic Press. Pre-orders with a 15%…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, evolution, global warming, Guayana, Guayana Highlands, Guiana, Guiana Highlands, Lost World, Neotropics, Pantepui
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Posted in Books, My publications
Palynology and Vegetation History – new book
A new book has been published in the Frontiers Research Topic series entitled “Palynology and Vegetation History“, to commemorate the centenary of the first quantitative pollen diagram, produced by the Swedish geologist Lennart von Post, the founder of paleoecological palynology. The…
Tagged with: ecology, Lennart von Post, paleoecology, paleovegetation, palynology, pollen analysis, pollen diagrams, Quaternary, vegetation history, vegetation reconstruction
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Posted in Books, My publications
The third issue of the journal Quaternary has been published
The third issue of the first volume (2018) of the open-access journal Quaternary has been released. Clich here to see the contents in the official journal webpage or download the Table of Contents in pdf. To receive quarterly updates of the…
What if the ‘Anthropocene’ is not formalised as new geological epoch?
In the coming years, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will submit its proposal on the ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geological epoch to the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). If approved, the proposal will be send to the International Union of…
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