This year, I have published a book on the prehistory of Easter Island, coedited with Christopher Stevenson, from the Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). The book has been issued by Springer Nature and is a collection of selected papers on the…
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What do Easter Island, the Pyrenees and the Caribbean have in common?
Tagged with: biogeography, Caribbean, Easter Island, ecology, Eocene, Europe, evolution, Holocene, Miocene, Neogene, Neotropics, Pacific, paleoecology, Paleogene, palynology, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Polynesia, Pyrenees, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation dynamics, vegetation responses
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Posted in Books, My publications
Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula well before its domestication
A study shows that Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula in its wild form during the Upper Paleolithic and underwent two further introduction waves, one in the Neolithic and another in the Middle Ages, likely in cultivated forms The main routes…
Tagged with: biogeography, Bronze Age, Cannabis, Chalcolithic, cultivated, dispersal, hemp, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age, Mesolithic, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pleistocene, pollen, Roman Epoch, wild
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Posted in Cannabis, My publications
Quaternary has received its first CiteScore and is waiting for its Impact Factor Index
The open-access journal Quaternary was launched in 2018 and this year has received its first CiteScore from Scopus, which situates this publication among those with the greatest impact in the specialty In 2017, the scientific publisher MDPI commissioned me to…
Tagged with: anthropology, archaeology, biogeography, diversification, evolution, geochemistry, geomorphology, glaciations, Holocene, interglacials, paleoclimates, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sedimentology
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Plants launches a new special issue on mangroves
Mangroves are considered to be among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. These transitional land-sea wetland forests dominate tropical/subtropical coasts all over the world and are essential for the maintenance of terrestrial and marine biodiversity, as well as for the functioning…
Tagged with: biogeography, climate change, conservation, deforestation, ecology, evolution, Forests, global cgange, mangroves, paleoecology, restoration, subtropics, tropics
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Posted in My publications, special issues
Origin and Evolution of Caribbean Mangroves
Mangroves are forested ecosystems living on intertidal coastal wetlands all over the tropics and subtropics, roughly between the parallels 25ºN and 25ºS. These communities are typically organized around a few dominant tree species, the mangrove-forming trees, and are transitional land-sea…
Tagged with: biogeography, Caribbean, dispersal, diversification, ecology, Eocene, evolution, Holocene, mangroves, Miocene, Neotropics, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, tropics, vicariance
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The Prehistory of Easter Island
This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and…
Tagged with: archaeology, biogeography, Botany, climate, deforestation, Drought, Easter Island, ecology, Enigmas, history, moai, paleoclimate, paleoecology, Raapanui, Rapa Nui, Transpacific Voyaging
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Posted in archaeology, biodiversity, Books, My publications
New book on Easter Island’s prehistory
The book “The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework” (Springer Nature), edited by V. Rull and C.M. Stevenson, has been sent to the press and will be issued early next year This book addresses the…
Tagged with: archaeology, biogeography, climate change, cultural collapse, deforestation, demography, Easter Island, ecology, history, human disturbance, last centuries, last millennium, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, prehistory, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications
My three pandemic books
Since the declaration of the COVID19 pandemic and the implementation of the corresponding lockdown measures, I have had to work at home, just as many inhabitants of the planet. Fortunately, part of my job is to write scientific publications and…
Tagged with: biogeography, Books, diversification, Easter Island, ecology, evolution, Neotropics, paleoecology, Quaternary, Rapa Nui
Posted in Books, My publications, Science
Posted in Books, My publications, Science
What is the most biodiverse tropical region?
According to a recent paper by Peter Raven and collaborators, the Neotropics is the most biodiverse tropical region in absolute terms, encompassing one third of global diversity, but Southeast Asia is proportionally richer if we consider its smaller area. Reference:…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, Neotropics, tropics
Posted in biodiversity, Research papers
Posted in biodiversity, Research papers
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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