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%…
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Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, evolution, global warming, Guayana, Guayana Highlands, Guiana, Guiana Highlands, Lost World, Neotropics, Pantepui
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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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Paleoecology of Easter Island – new eBook
After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island’s ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. A new eBook published by Frontiers (Lausane, Switzerland) provides a synthetic view of…
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, culture, deforestation, discovery, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, geology, history, human disturbance, journal, methods, migration, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, open access, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogenetics, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Very simple yes-and-no questions about the Anthropocene
Have humans changed the configuration and functioning of the Earth System? Yes. Should we change our relationships with our planet to be sustainable? Yes. Should we stop overexploitation, contamination and garbage accumulation at once? Yes. Should we change the global…
Antropoceno para todos
Acaba de salir el libro de divulgación sobre el ‘Antropoceno‘, donde trato de dar al gran público una visión objetiva sobre el tema para que cada quien pueda formarse una opinión propia y no tenga que creer todo lo que…
Tagged with: anthropocene, climate change, culture, ecology, human evolution, popular science
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Biodiversity of the “Lost World” – Table of Contents
The book “Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropics”, edited by Valentí Rull (Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Barcelona), Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia (University of Barcelona), Otto Huber (Museum of Nature South Tyrol) and Celsa Señaris (Venezuelan Institute…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, ecology, evolution, extinction, fauna, global change, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, Quaternary, South America, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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New Springer book on neotropical diversification
The book proposal on neotropical diversification edited by V. Rull and A. Carnaval has been approved by Springer. The book will gather as many geographical settings, organism groups (including some rarely addressed in this context) and points of view as…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, DNA, evolution, extinction, human disturbance, Neotropics, paleoecology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, Quaternary, South America, speciation, tropics, vegetation dynamics
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