Papers

Articles of the last decade

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In review

• Rull, V. The Anthropozoic era: an updated proposal. Submitted to Lethaia. Preprint available at EarthArXiv Preprints, doi 10.31223/osf.io/egq72
• Rull, V. Prehistoric paleoecogy of Easter Island. Submitted to: Rull, V. & Stevenson, C.M. (eds.), The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework. Springer, Berlin. Preprint available at PaleorXiv Preprints, doi 10.31233/osf.io/vth9x
• Rull, V. Pristinity, degradation and landscaping: the three angles of human impact on islands. Submitted to Progress in Physical Geography. Preprint available at OSF Preprints 2020, doi 10.31219/osf.io/pksx8
• Rull, V. Contributions of paleoecology to Easter Iisland’s prehistory: a thorough review. Submitted to Earth-Science Reviews. Preprint available at EarthArXiv Preprints, doi 10.31223/osf.io/nf297

2020

• Cao, M., Rivas-Ruiz., Trapote, M.C., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Rull, V., Rosell-Melé, A. 2020. Seasonal effects of water temperature and dissolved oxygen on isoGDGT proxy (TEX86) in a Mediterranean oligotrophic lake. Chemical Geology, 551: 119759.
• Rull, V. 2020. Drought, freshwater availability and cultural resilience on Easter Island (SE Pacific) during the Little Ice Age. The Holocene, 30: 774-780.
• Rull, V. & Carnaval, A. 2020. Introduction. In: Rull, V. & Carnaval, A. (eds.), Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Springer, Berlin, pp 1-10.
• Rull, V. 2020. Neotropical diversification: historical overview and conceptual insights. In: Rull, V. & Carnaval, A. (eds.), Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Springer, Berlin, pp. 13-49.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2020. The Pantepui “lost world”: towards a biogeographical, ecological and evolutionary synthesis of a pristine Neotropical sky-island archipelago. In: Rull, V. & Carnaval, A. (eds.), Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Springer, Berlin, pp. 369-413.
• Rull, V. 2020. The deforestation of Easter Island. Biological Reviews, 95: 124-141.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Rull, V., Trapote, M.C., Cao, M., Rosell-Melé, T., Buchaca, T., Gomà, J., López, P., Sigró, J., Safont, E., Cañellas, N., Garcés-Pastor, S., Giralt, S., Corella, P. & Zanón, N. 2020. Modern analog approach applied to high-resolution varved sediments – a synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees). Quaternary, 3: 1, doi 10.3390/quat3010001.

2019

• Montoya, E., Pedra- Méndez, J., García-Falcó, E., Gómez-Paccard, M., Giralt, S., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Stauffer, F. & Rull, V. 2019. Long-term vegetation dynamics of a tropical megadelta: mid-Holocene palaeoecology of the Orinoco Delta (Venezuela). Quaternary Science Reviews, 221: 109285.
• Vázquez-Loureiro, D., Gonçalves, V., Sáez, A., Hernández, A., Raposeiro, P., Giralt, S., Rubio-Hernández, M.J.,  Rull, V. & Bao, R. 2019. Diatom-inferred ecological responses of an oceanic lake system to volcanism and anthropogenic perturbations since 1290 CE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 534: 109285.
• Seco, I., Rull, V., Montoya, E., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Giralt, S., Margalef, O., Pla-Rabes, S., D’Andrea, W., Bradley, R. & Sáez, A. 2019. A continuous palynological record of a forest clearing at Rano Kao (Easter Island, SE Pacific) during the last millennium: preliminary report. Quaternary 2, 22, doi 10.3390/quat2020022.
• Corella, J.P. Benito, G., Wilhelm, B., Montoya, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Valero-Garcés, B. 2019. A millennium-long perspective of flood-related seasonal sediment yield in Mediterranean watersheds. Global and Planetry Change, 177:127-140.
• Rull, V. 2019. Human discovery and settlement of the remote Easter Island (SE Pacific). Quaternary, 2: 15.
• Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. 2019. Introduction. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. xv-xviii.
• Rull, V., Huber, O., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Señaris, C. 2019. Definition and characterization of the Pantepui biogeographical province. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 3-32.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Nogué, S., Safont, E. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2019. Climatic and ecological history of Pantepui and surrounding areas with some biogeographical and evolutionary considerations. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 33-54.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2019. Pantepui as a dynamic biogeographical concept. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 55-67.
• Rull, V. 2019. Origin and evolution of the Pantepui biota. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier, Cambridge, pp. 69-91.
• Huber, O. & Rull, V. 2019. Plant communities. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 149-164.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2019. Pantepui and Global Warming. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 403-417.
• Rull, V. 2019. La Isla de Pascua. El colapso de una civilización. Historia National Geographic, 183: 94-111.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2019. Pantepui as a dynamic biogeographical concept. In: Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Huber, O. & Señaris, C. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands. Elsevier-Academic Press, London, pp. 55-67.
• Antczak, A.T., Lemoine Buffet, L.A., Antczak, M.M. & Rull, V. 2019. Early Indigenous Occupations of Margarita Island and the Venezuelan Caribbean. In Hofman, C.L. Antczak, A.T. (eds.), Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic. Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 129-144.
• Rull, V. 2019. Quaternary highlights (December 2018-February 2019). Quaternary, 2: 12.

2018

• Rull, V. 2018. Quaternary highlights (September-December 2018). Quaternary, 1: 31, doi 10.3390/quat1030031.
• Rull, V. 2018. What if the ‘Anthropocene’ is not formalized as a new geological series/epoch? Quaternary, 1: 24, doi 10.3390/quat1030024.
• Trapote, M., Rull, V., Giralt, S., Montoya, E., Corella, J.P. & Vegas Vilarrúbia, T. 2018. High-resolution (subdecadal) pollen analysis of varved sediments from Lake Montcortès (southern Pyrenean flank): a fine-tuned record of landscape dynamics and human impact during the last 500 years. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 259: 207-222.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Giesecke, T. & Morris, J.L. 2018. Editorial: Paleoecology and Vegetation History. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi 10.3389/feart.2018.00186.
• Rull, V. 2018. Quaternary highlights (July-September 2018). Quaternary, 1: 18, doi 10.3390/quat1020018
• Rull, V. 2018. Strong Fuzzy EHLFS: a General Conceptual Framework to Address Past Records of Environmental, Ecological and Cultural Change. Quaternary, 1: 10, doi 10.3390/quat1020010.
• Rull, V. & Giralt, S. 2018. Editorial: palaeoecology of Easter Island: natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6: 105, doi 10.3389/fevo.2018.00105.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Corella, J.P., Giralt, S. & Valero-Garcés, B. 2018. Grazing activities in the Southern Central Pyrenees during the last millennium as deduced from the non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) record of lake Montcortès. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 254: 8-19.
• Rull, V. 2018. Palaeoinsights – Editorial Tips. Quaternary, 1: 5, doi 10.3390/quat1010005.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Seco, I., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Giralt, S., Margalef, O., Pla-Rabes, S., D’Andrea, W., Bradley, R. & Sáez, A. 2018. CLAFS, a holistic climatic-ecological-anthropogenic hypothesis on Easter Island’s deforestation and cultural change: proposals and testing prospects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6: 32, doi 10.3389/fevo.2018.00032.
• Margalef, O., Álvarez-Gómez, J.A., Pla-Rabes, S., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Geyer, A., Peñuelas, J., Sardans, J. & Giralt. S. 2018. Revisiting the role of high-energy Pacific events on the environmental history of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Geographical Journal, 184: 310-322.
• Trapote, M.C., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., López, P., Puche, E., Gomà, J., Buchaca, T., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Safont, E., Corella, J.P. & Rull, V. 2018. Modern sedimentary analogs and integrated monitoring to understand varve formation in the Mediterranean Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 496, 292-304.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Corella, J.P., Pérez-Zanón, N., Buchaca, T., Trapote, M.C., López, P., Sigró, J. & Rull, V. 2018. Historical shifts in oxygenation regime as recorded in the laminated sediments of Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) support hypoxia as a continental-scale phenomenon. Science of the Total Environment, 612: 1577-1592.
• Rull, V. 2018. Quaternary – a Multidisciplinary Journal to Cope with a Complex World. Quaternary, 1: 1, doi 10.3390/quat1010001.

2017

• Rull, V., Connor, S. & Elias, R. 2017. Potential natural vegetation and pre-anthropic palynological records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context. Journal of Biogeography, 44: 2437-2440.
• Rull, V. 2017. The ‘Anthropocene’ uncovered. Collectanea Botanica, 36: e008; doi: 10.3989/collectbot.2017.v36.008
• Rull, V. 2017. The ‘Anthropocene’: neglects, misconceptions and possible futures. EMBO Reports, 18: 1056-1060.
• Hernández, A., Sáez, A., Bao, R., Raposeiro, P., Trigo, R., Doolittle, S., Masqué, P., Rull, V., Gonçalves, V., Vázquez-Loureiro, D., Rubio-Inglés, M.J., Sánchez-López, G. & Giralt, S. The influences of the AMO and NAO on the sedimentary infill in an Azores archipelago lake climate since ca. 1350 AD. Global and Planetary Change, 154: 61-74.
• Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Montoya, E. 2017. Paleoecology as a guide to landscape conservation and restoration in the neotropical Gran Sabana. PAGES Magazine, 25: 82-83.
• Rull, V. & Montoya, E. 2017. Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Apakará summit of the neotropical Guayana Highlands. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 240: 22-32.
• Rull, V., Lara, A., Rubio-Inglés, M.J., Sáez, A., Giralt, S., Gonçalves, V., Raposeiro, P., Hernández, A., Sánchez-López, G., Vázquez-Loureiro, D., Bao, R., Masqué, P. & Sáez, A. 2017. Vegetation and landscape dynamics under natural and anthropogenic forcing on the Azores Islands: a 700-year pollen record from the São Miguel Island. Quaternary Science Reviews, 159: 155-168.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2017. Potential responses of vascular plants from the pristine ‘lost world’ of the neotropical Guayana Highlands to global warming: review and new perspectives. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8: 81, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00081
• Rull, V., Trapote, M.C., Safont, E., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Pérez-Zanón, N., Sigró, J., Buchaca, T. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2017. Seasonal patterns of pollen sedimentation in Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) and potential applications to high-resolution paleoecology: a 2-year pilot study. Journal of Paleolimnology, 57: 95-108.
• Raposeiro, P.M., Rubio-Inglés, M.J., González, A., Hernández, A., Sánchez-López, G., Vázquez-Loureiro, D., Rull, V., Bao, R., Costa, A.C., Gonçalves, V., Sáez, A. & Giralt, S. 2017. Impact of the historical introduction of exotic fishes on the chironomid community of Lake Azul (Azores Islands). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466: 77-88.

2016

• Rull, V., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Sáez, A., Giralt, S., Pla-Rabes, S. & Margalef, O. 2016. Palaeoecology and human history of Easter Island (Southern Pacific Ocean): some problems and potential solutions. In: Reindel, M., Bartl, K., Lüth, F. & Benecke, N. (eds,), Palaeoenvironment and the development of early settlements. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden, pp. 91-98.
• Garcés-Pastor, S., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Calero, M.A., Giralt, S., Valero-Garcés, B., Gutiérrez, E. & Camarero, J.J. 2016. Canvis limnològics i paisatgístics durant el darrer mil·leni a l’Estany de Sant Maurici: Estudi multiproxy. X Jornades sobre Recerca al Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Espot, Oct 2015 (ISBN 9788439394518), pp. 33-42.
• Calero, M.A., Valero-Garcés, B., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Garcés, S. 2016. Paleoclimatologia de l’Holocè tardà a l’Estany de Sant Maurici. X Jornades sobre Recerca al Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Espot, Oct 2015 (ISBN 9788439394518), pp. 55-59.
• Rull, V., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Margalef, O., Pla-Rabes, S., Sáez, A. & Giralt, S. 2016. Climate changes and cultural shifts on Easter Island during the last millennia. PAGES Magazine, 24: 70-71.
• Camarero, J.J., Garcés-Pastor, S., Gutiérrez, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Sangüesa, G., Trapote, M.C., Clavaguera, A., Calero, M.A., Galván, J.D., Sánchez, R., Giralt, S. & Valero-Garcés, B. 2016. Reconstruyendo la historia de los bosques pirenaicos. Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: convocatoria 2011-2014, pp. 141-156.
• Rull, V. 2016. The ‘Anthropocene’: a requiem for the Geologic Time Scale? Quaternary Geochronology, 36: 76-77.
• Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Safont, E. 2016. The Lost World’s pristinity at risk. Diversity and Distributions, 22: 995-999.
• Rull, V. 2016. Natural and anthropogenic drivers of cultural change at Easter Island: review and new insights. Quaternary Science Reviews, 150: 31-41.
• Rull, V. 2016. The Humanized Earth System (HES). The Holocene, 26: 1513-1515.
• Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Montoya, E. 2016. The neotropical Gran Sabana region: palaeoecology and conservation. The Holocene, 26: 1162-1167.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Rull, V. 2016. Undervalued impacts of sea-level rise: vanishing deltas. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4: 77. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00077
• Rull, V. 2016. The EIRA database: Last Glacial and Holocene radiocarbon ages from Easter Island’s sedimentary records. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4: 44, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00044 (dataset available in the NOAA-NCDC repository).
• Safont, E., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Rull, V., Holst, B.K., Huber, O., Nozawa, S., Vivas, Y., Font, X. & Silva, A. 2016. Plant communities and environmental factors in the Guayana Highlands: monitoring for conservation under future climate change. Systematics & Biodiversity, 14: 327-344.
• Rull, V., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Margalef, O., Pla-Rabes, S., Sáez, A. & Giralt, S. 2016. Three millennia of climatic, ecological and cultural change on Easter Island: a synthetic overview. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4: 29. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00029
• Safont, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Montoya, E., Huber, O. & Holst, B.K. 2016. Late-Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics on the summits of the Guayana Highlands: the Uei-tepui palynological record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 455: 33-43.
• Calero, M.A., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Garcés, S., López-Vila, J. & Camarero, J.J. 2016. El registro sedimentario del lago Sant Maurici (Pirineos Centrales). Geogaceta, 59: 11-14.
• Flantua, S.G.A., Hooghiemstra, H., Vuille, M., Behling, H., Carson, J., Gosling, W., Hoyos, I., Ledru, M.-P., Montoya, E., Mayle, F., Maldonado, A., Rull, V., Tonello, M., Whitney, B.S. & González-Arango, C. 2016. Climate change and human impact in Central and South America over the last 2000 years. Climate of the Past, 12: 483-523.
• Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Margalef, O., Bao, R., Pla-Rabes, S., Valero-Garcés, B. & Giralt, S. 2016. Vegetation dynamics at Raraku Lake catchment (Easter Island) during the past 34,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 446: 55-69.
• Rull, V. 2016. Free science under threat. The current revival of Bernalism and the use of market-based scientific practices can undermine science as we know it. EMBO Reports, 17: 131-135.

2015

• Rull, V. 2015. Pleistocene speciation is not refuge speciation. Journal of Biogeography, 42: 602-604.
• Rull, V., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Margalef, O., Sáez, A. Pla-Rabes, S. & Giralt, S. 2015. Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and deforestation in Rano Aroi: implications for Easter Island’s ecological and cultural history. Quaternary Science Reviews, 126: 219-226.
• Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Montoya, E. 2015. Neotropical vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climates as analogs for future climate change scenarios and lessons for conservation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 115: 28-38.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Ballesteros, T. 2015. New insights on paleofires and savannisation in northern South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 122: 158-165.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Hernández, E., Rull, V. & Rull-Vegas, E. 2015. The Orinoco megadelta as a conservation target in the face of the ongoing and future sea level rise. Science of the Total Environment, 515-516: 129-142.
• Margalef, O., Cacho, I., Pla-Rabes, S., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Pueyo, J.J., Sáez, A., Pena, L.D., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Rull, V. & Giralt, S. 2015. Millennial-scale precipitation variability over Easter Island (South Pacific) during MIS 3: inter-hemispheric teleconnections with North Atlantic abrupt cold events. Climate of the Past Discussions, doi:10.5194/cpd-11-1407-2015
• Rull, V. 2015. Long-term vegetation stability and the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Neotropics. Journal of Vegetation Science, 26:603-607.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2015. Crops and weeds from the lake Montcortès region (southern Pyrenees) during the last millennium: a comparison of historical and palynological records. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24: 699-710.
• Flantua, S.G.A, Hooghiemstra, H., Grimm, E.C., Behling, H., Bush, M.B., González-Arango, C., Gosling, W., Ledru, M.-P., Lozano-García, S., Maldonado, A., Prieto, A., Rull, V. & Van Boxel, J.H. 2015. Updated site compilation of the Latin American Pollen Database. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, 223: 104-115.
• Rull, V. 2015. South American peopling and neotropical savannisation. Journal of Brief Ideas, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16589
• Rull, V. & Rull, E. 2015. Green Revolution: Future Prospects For. In: Albala, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Food Issues. SAGE Publ., London, pp. 735-738.

2014

• Rull, V. 2014. Macrorefugia and microrefugia. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29: 243-244.
• Rull, V. & Montoya, E. 2014. Mauritia flexuosa palm swamp communities: natural or human-made? A palynological study of the Gran Sabana region (northern South America) within a neotropical context. Quaternary Science Reviews, 99: 17-33.
• Ballesteros, T., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Montoya, E., Abbott, M.B., Giralt, S., Stansell, N. & Rull, V. 2014. An 8700-year record of the interplay of environmental and human drivers in the development of the southern Gran Sabana landscape, SE Venezuela. The Holocene, 24: 1757-1770.
• López-Vila, J., Montoya, E., Cañellas-Boltà, N. & Rull, V. 2014. Modern non-pollen palynomorphs sedimentation along an elevational gradient in the south-central Pyrenees (southwestern Europe) as a tool for Holocene paleoecological reconstruction. The Holocene, 24: 327-345.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2014. Preliminary report on a mid-19th century Cannabis pollen peak in NE Spain: historical context and potential chronological significance. The Holocene, 24: 1378-1383.
• Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Prebble, M. & Margalef, O. 2014. First records and potential paleoecological significance of Dianella (Xanthorrhoeaceae), an extinct representative of the native flora of Easter Island. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 23: 331-338.
• Safont, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Holst, B.K., Huber, O., Nozawa, S., Vivas. Y. & Silva, A. 2014. Establishing a baseline of plant diversity and endemism in a neotropical mountain summit for future comparative studies assessing upward migration: an approach from biogeography and nature conservation. Systematics and Biodiversity, 12: 292-314.
• Rull, V. 2014. Time continuum and the true long-term ecology: from theory to practice. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00075.
• Rull, V. 2014. The most important application of science. EMBO Reports, 15: 919-922.
• Rull, V. 2014. Conservation, human values and democracy. EMBO Reports, 15: 17-20.
• Rull, V. 2014. The social utility of science. Collectanea Botanica, 33: 85-90.
• Rull, V. 2014. Biodiversity, mountains and climate change. Collectanea Botanica, 33: 75-79.
• Rull, V. 2014. Ecological palaeoecology: a missing link between ecology and evolution. Collectanea Botanica, 33: 65-73.
• Rull, V. 2014. SciFor 2.0: A Manifesto for a Global Science Force. Institut Botànic de Barcelona, Barcelona, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4137.7762
• Rull, V. 2014. Presentation. In: Pardo-Tomàs, J. (ed), Salvadoriana: the cabinet of curiosities of Barcelona. Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona-Botanic Institute of Barcelona, Barcelona, pp. 13-14.
• Rull, V. 2014. L’estany de Montcortès: Un arxiu climàtic i ecològic excepcional. Brolla, 33: 10-11.

2013

• Rull, V. 2013. Are we willing to build a better future? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28: 443-444.
• Nogué, S., Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2013. Elevation gradients in the neotropical table mountains: patterns of endemism and implications for conservation. Diversity and Distributions, 19: 676-687.
• Rull, V. 2013. Paleoclimates and Amazon biodiversity. Journal of Biogeography, 40: 1413-1414.
• Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Margalef, O., Bao, R., Pla-Rabes, S., Valero-Garcés, B., Blaauw, M. & Giralt, S. 2013. Vegetation changes and human settlement of Easter Island during the last millennia: a multiproxy study of the Lake Raraku sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 72: 36-48.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Nogué, S., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Safont, E. 2013. Ecological palaeoecology in the neotropical Gran Sabana region: long-term records of vegetation dynamics as a basis for ecological hypothesis testing. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 15: 338-359.
• Rull, V. 2013. A futurist perspective on the Anthropocene. The Holocene, 23: 1198-1201.
• Margalef, O., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Pla-Rabes, S., Giralt, S., Pueyo, J. J., Joosten, H., Rull, V., Buchaca, T., Hernández, A., Valero-Garcés, B. L., Moreno, A. & Sáez, A. 2013. A 70,000 multiproxy record of climatic and environmental change from Rano Aroi peatland (Easter Island). Global and Planetary Change, 108: 72-84.
• Rull, V. 2013. Some problems in the study of the origin of tropical biodiversity using palaeoecological and molecular phylogenetic evidence. Systematics and Biodiversity, 11: 415-423.
• Rull, V., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Sáez, A., Margalef, O., Bao, R., Pla-Rabes, S., Valero-Garcés, B. & Giralt, S. 2013. Challenging Easter Island’s collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 1: 3 (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2013.00003)
• Rull, V. 2013. La ciencia, esa extranjera. Collectanea Botanica, 32: 121-125.
• Mercadé, A., Vigo, J., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Garcés, S., Lara, A., Cañellas-Boltà, N. 2013. Vegetation and landscape around Lake Montcortès (Catalan pre-Pyrenees) as a tool for palaeoecological study of lake sediments. Collectanea Botanica, 32: 87-101.
• Rull, V. 2013. Prefácio. In: Bauermann, S. et al. (eds), Pólen nas Angiospermas: Diversidade e evolução. Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, pp. 11-12.

2012

• Rull, V. 2012. Paleobiodiversity and taxonomic resolution: linking past trends with present patterns. Journal of Biogeography, 39: 1005-1006.
• Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Margalef, S., Giralt, S., Pueyo, J. J., Birks, H. H., Birks, H. J. B. & Pla, S. 2012. Macrofossils in Raraku Lake (Easter Island). An integration of sedimentary and geochemical records and a palaeoecological synthesis for the last 34 cal kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 34: 113-126.
• Safont, E., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Rull, V. 2012. Use of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) tools to set priorities and optimize strategies in biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation, 149: 113-121.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Nogué, S., Rull, V. 2012. Global warming, habitat shifts and potential refugia for biodiversity conservation in the neotropical Guayana Highlands. Biological Conservation, 152: 159-168.
• Corella, J. P., Brauer, A., Mangili, C., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Morellón, M. & Valero-Garcés, B. 2012. The 1.5 ka varved record of Lake Montcortès (southern Pyrenees, NE Spain). Quaternary Research, 78: 323-332.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2012. Non-pollen palynomorph studies in the Neotropics: the case of Venezuela. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 186: 102-130.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2012. Montcortès. In: Carrión, J.S. (ed.), Paleoflora y Paleovegetación de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares: Plioceno-Cuaternario. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Madrid, pp. 333-336.
• Rull, V. 2012. Past natural history and ecological biodiversity modeling. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10: 1-5.
• Rull, V. 2012. Community ecology: diversity and dynamics over time. Community Ecology, 13: 102-116.
• Rull, V. 2012. Time, evolution and physical reductionism. EMBO Reports, 13: 181-185.
• Rull, V. 2012. Towards a scientific force: some insights and a manifesto. Collectanea Botanica, 31: 121-125.
• RullV. 2012. Cycad diversification and tropical biodiversity. Collectanea Botanica, 31: 103-106.
• Rull, V. & Montoya, E. 2012. El origen de la Gran Sabana: Pistas del pasado. In Sánchez-Villagra, M. (ed.), Venezuela Paleontológica. Universität Zurich, Zurich, pp. 335-345.

2011

• Rull, V. 2011. Origins of biodiversity. Science, 331: 398-399.
• Rull, V. 2011. Neotropical biodiversity: timing and potential drivers. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26: 508-513.
• Rull, V. & Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. 2011. What is long-term in ecology? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26: 3-4.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Rull, V., Montoya, E. & Safont, E. 2011. Quaternary palaeoecology and nature conservation: a general review and some examples from the Neotropics. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 2361-2388.
• Montoya, E. & Rull, V. 2011. Gran Sabana fires (SE Venezuela): a paleoecological perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 3430-3444.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V., Stansell, N. D., Bird, B. W., Nogué, S., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Abbott, M. B. & Díaz, W. A. 2011. Vegetation changes in the Neotropical Gran Sabana (Venezuela) around the Younger Dryas Chron. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26: 207-218.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V. & Nogué, S. 2011. Early human occupation and land use changes near the boundary of the Orinoco and the Amazon basins (SE Venezuela): palynological evidence from El Paují record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 310: 413-426.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V., Stansell, N. D., Abbott, M. B., Nogué, S., Bird, B. W. & Díaz, W. 2011. Forest-savanna-morichal dynamics in relation to fire and human occupation in the southern Gran Sabana (SE Venezuela) during the last millennia. Quaternary Research, 76: 335-344.
• Corella, J. P., Moreno, A., Morellón, M., Rull, V., Giralt, S., Rico, M. T., Pérez-Sanz, A. & Valero-Garcés, B. 2011. Climate and human impact on a meromictic lake during the last 6,000 years (Montcortès Lake, Centrla Pyrenees, Spain). Journal of Paleolimnology, 46: 351-367.
• Rull, V., González-Sampériz, P., Corella, J. P.., Morellón, M. & Giralt, S. 2011. Vegetation changes in the southern Pyrenean flank durign the last millennium in relation to climate and human activities: the Montcortès lacustrine record. Journal of Paleolimnology, 46: 387-404.
• Scussolini, P., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Rull, V., Corella, P., Valero, B. & Gomà, J. 2011. Mid-late Holocene climate change and human impact based on diatoms, algae and aquatic vegetation pollen from Lake Montcortès (NE Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Paleolimnology, 46: 369-385.
• Rull, V. 2011. Sustainability, capitalism and evolution. EMBO Reports, 12: 103-106.
• Rull, V., Montoya, E., Nogué, S. & Huber, O. 2011. Preliminary palynological analysis of a Holocene peat bog from Apakará-tepui (Chimantá Massif, Venezuelan Guayana). Collectanea Botanica, 30: 79-88.
• Rull, V. 2011. Research efficiency in relation to investment. Collectanea Botanica, 30: 107-108.
• Rull, V. 2011. Paleoecología de las Tierras Altas de Guayana: Implicaciones ecológicas y evolutivas. In Caballero, M. & Ortega, B. (eds.), Escenarios de cambio ambiental: Registros del Cuaternario en América Latina. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, pp. 139-156.

2010

• Rull, V. 2010. Food security: green revolution drawbacks. Science, 328: 169.
• Rull, V., Cañelas-Boltà, N., Sáez, A., Giralt, S., Pla, S. & Margalef, O. 2010. Paleoecology of Easter Island: evidence and uncertainties. Earth-Science Reviews, 99: 50-60.
• Rull, V., Stansell, N. D., Montoya, E., Bezada, M. & Abbott, M. B. 2010. Palynological signal of the Younger Dryas in the tropical Venezuelan Andes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29: 3045-3056.
• Stansell, N. D., Abbott, M. B., Rull, V., Rodbell, D. T., Bezada, M. & Montoya, E. 2010. Abrupt Younger Dryas cooling in the northern tropics recorded in lake sediments from the Venezuelan Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293: 154-163.
• Rull, V. 2010. On microrefugia and cryptic refugia. Journal of Biogeography, 37: 1623-1627.
• Cody, S., Richardson, J. E., Rull, V., Ellis, Ch. & Pennington, R. T. 2010. The great American biotic interchange revisited. Ecography, 33: 326-332.
• Montoya, E., Rull, V. & van Geel, B. 2010. Non-pollen palynomorphs from surface sediments along an altitudinal transect of the Venezuelan Andes. Palaeoegography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297: 169-183.
• Rull, V. 2010. Who needs a greener revolution? EMBO Reports, 11: 659-663.
• Rull, V. 2010. The candid approach. EMBO Reports, 11: 14-17.
• Rull, V. 2010. Ecology and paleoecology: two approaches, one objective. The Open Ecology Journal, 3: 1-5.
• López- Martínez, C., Lara, A., Rull, V., Campbell, L. & Nogué, S. 2010. Additions to the Pantepui pollen flora (Venezuelan Guayana): the Maguire Collection. Collectanea Botanica, 29: 31-49.
• Rull, V. 2010. El mito del desarrollo sostenible. Collectanea Botanica, 29: 103-109.
• Safont, E., Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. & Nogué, S. 2010. L’escalfament global i l’extinció de les plantes: Un exemple tropical. L’Atzavara, 20: 29-42.
• Rull, V. 2010. The Guayana Highlands: a natural laboratory for the biogeographical and evolutionary study of the neotropical flora. In Sánchez-Villagra, M., Aguilera, O. & Carlini, A. (eds.), Urumaco and Venezuelan palaeontology-The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press, Indiana, pp. 84-102.
• Rull, V., Abbott, M. B., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Bezada, M., Montoya, E., Nogué, S & González, C. 2010. Paleoenvironmental trends in Venezuela during the last glacial cycle. In Sánchez-Villagra, M., Aguilera, O. & Carlini, A. (eds.), Urumaco and Venezuelan palaeontology-The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press, Indiana, pp. 55-83.
• Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Vigo, J. & Mercadé, A. 2010. Sedimentació actual de pol·len a la Vall d’Aiguamòg i el Circ de Colomèrs, i la seva relació amb la flora i la vegetació. Actes VIII Jornades sobre Recerca al Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Espot, 2009, pp. 101-112.