Springer has approved the publication of a new book entitled The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards a Multidisciplinary Integrative Framework, edited by Valentí Rull and Christopher M. Stevenson. The book is aimed at presenting representative papers from a…
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New Springer book on the prehistory of Easter Island
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes – Just Published!
Editorial summary: This newly published book provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in a wide of Neotropical biomes and ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their historical biogeographies and underlying diversification processes. All chapters have been…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, climate change, conservation, diversification, DNA, ecology, evolution, extinction, Neogene, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, phylogeography, Quaternary, South America, speciation
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Quaternary Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography
This is the title of a new book published by Elsevier-Academic Press some days ago. Here I reproduce the cover and attach the front matter (freely accessible), with the table of contents and the introduction. The book can be bought…
Biodiversity of the Lost World
The book “Biodiversity of Pantepui, the Pristine Lost World of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands”, edited by V. Rull, T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia, O. Huber and C Señaris, is already published in Paperback and eBook formats. See the Elsevier website. This book provides…
Tagged with: algae, amphibians, animals, aquatic insects, biodiversity, biogeography, birds, Brasil, butterflies, climate, climate change, conservation, ecology, evolution, global warming, Guayana, Guiana, Guiana Highlands, Guyana, Lost World, mammals, Neotropics, paleoclimate, paleoecology, Pantepui, plants, reptiles, scorpions, snails, Venezuela
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Quaternary Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography
The book “Quaternary Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography” by V. Rull, which will be issued in March 2020, can already be pre-ordered at the Elsevier website. This book is an introduction to the study of the ecological and evolutionary processes that…
Tagged with: anthropocene, biogeography, biosphere, climate change, diversification, ecological communities, ecology, ecosystems, evolution, extinction, glaciations, global change, Holocene, hominids, hominins, human evolution, human origins, industrial revolution, interglacials, Las Millennium, Neolithic revolution, organisms, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, Pleistocene, Quaternary, speciation
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Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes
The book “Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes”, edited by V. Rull and A. C. Carnaval, which will be issued in March 2020, can already be pre-ordered at the Springer website in Hardcover and eBook versions. This book provides a comprehensive…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, evolution, latitudinal diversity gradients, Miocene, molecular phylogenetics, Neogene, Neotropics, phylofeography, Pliocene, Quaternary, tropics
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Lost World’s biodiversity uncovered
The book about the biodiversity of the Conan Doyle’s Lost World will be issued in a couple of weeks. The title is “Biodiversity of Pantepui, the Pristine Lost World of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands” and is published by Elsevier-Academic Press.…
Tagged with: algae, amphibians, aquatic insects, biodiversity, biogeography, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, climate change, conservation, continental islands, ecology, evolution, extinction, global change, global warming, Guiana Highlands, habitat loss, land snails, Lost World, mammals, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Pantepui, phylogeography, plant communities, pollen, reptiles, scorpions, South America, vascular plants, vegetation dynamics, vertebrate parasites
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New book on Quaternary Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography
A new book entitled “The Quaternary: Ecology and Evolution with Glaciations” has been approved last week by Elsevier-Academic Press and will be published in 2020. The book is intended for a wide audience including researchers, teachers, graduate students and people…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, biodiversity, climate change, colonization, conservation, cultural change, DNA, ecology, environmental degradation, evolution, extinction, fire, global change, history, human disturbance, human evolution, natural resources, nature overexploitation, Neotropics, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, popular science, Quaternary, socio-ecology, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications, Science
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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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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