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.…
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Lost World’s biodiversity uncovered
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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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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A new open-access journal on Quaternary science
Valentí Rull has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the new open-access journal called Quaternary published by MDPI publishers based on Basel (Switzerland). MDPI publishes ca. 180 open-access journals, a number of which are listed in the WOS Journal Citation Reports with…
Tagged with: anthropocene, applications, archaeology, associate editors, biogeography, editorial board, evolution, geology, methods, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleoinsights, physical geography, Quaternary
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Book on the biodiversity of the “Lost World”
The famous novel of Arthur Conan Doyle entitled “The Lost World” was inspired by the remote, enigmatic and still pristine flat summits of the neotropical table mountains known as the Guayana Highlands (GH), whose unique, diverse and largely endemic biota…
Tagged with: Arthur Conan Doyle, biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, ecology, endemism, evolution, Guayana Highlands, Guiana Highlands, Lost World, Neotropics, Pantepui, pristinity, South America, table mountains, tropics, Venezuela
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