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…
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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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Posted in Books, My publications
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
Special issue on island colonization by humans
The journal Quaternary launches a new special issue entitled “The human footprint on islands – the ecological impact of discovery and colonization” edited by Erik de Boer (Institute of earth Science jaume Almera-CSIC, Spain), Lea de Nascimento (University of La Laguna, Spain),…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, Azores Islands, biodiversity, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human colonization, human disturbance, islands, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Quaternary Journal
Posted in Quaternary Journal
Quaternary – new special issue on Africa
The journal Quaternary launches a new special issue entitled “Appying the Quaternary in Africa: the role of the past in supporting the future” edited by Robert Marchant (University of York, UK), Lindsey Gillson (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and…
Tagged with: Africa, anthropocene, climate change, climatic change, conservation, ecology, environmental degradation, natural resources, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Quaternary, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, sustainabilty, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Quaternary Journal
Curso de postgrado sobre las bases científicas del Antropoceno
El Departamento de Postgrado y Especialización del CSIC abre un nuevo curso titulado: El Antropoceno: bases científicas, que tendrá lugar entre el 15 de enero y el 15 de febrero de 2019, en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra…
A holistic view of Easter Island’s history
CLAFS (Cimate-Landscape-Anthropogenic Feedbacks and Synergies) is a hypothesis integrating natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological and cultural change aimed at unraveling Easter Island’s history under a holistic perspective Our latest paper paper reviews the existing hypotheses concerning the cultural shift…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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