The manuscript entitled: The Anthropozoic era revisited, by V. Rull, has been accepted for publication in the journal Lethaia. The abstract is provided below. Abstract: This paper explains in some detail the poorly known proposal of Stoppani (1873) regarding the…
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Are we in the Anthropozoic era?
Tagged with: anthropocene, Anthropozoic, Cenozoic, epoch, era, evolution, extinction, global change, human evolution, period, Quaternary, series, stratigraphy, system
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The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation
The manuscript entitled: Pristinity, degradation and replacement: the three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation, by V. Rull, has been accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Physical Geography. The abstract is reproduced below. Abstract: This paper presents…
Tagged with: anthropocene, biodiversity, biogeography, climate change, colonization, conservation, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, global change, history, human disturbance, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Quaternary, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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A lesson for global change?
We live in a society that is incapable of controlling itself in the face of an epidemic disease that directly threatens our own individual lives. How can we expect that the same society becomes worried about the possible consequences of…
Tagged with: anthropocene, climate change, environmental degradation, global change, natural resources
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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…
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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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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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
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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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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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