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…
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Quaternary – new special issue on Africa
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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Neotropical diversification – the book
In November 2016, Springer contacted me to write a book on neotropical diversification. I proposed an edited book including as many views as possible on this fascinating topic and inivted Ana Carnaval, from the City University of New York, to…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climatic change, diversification, extinction, Mesoamerica, Neogene, Neotropics, paleogeography, Pleistocene, Quaternary, South America, speciation, tectonics, tropical America
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New popular book on Easter Island
In December 2016, I published a popular book on the misterious Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its emblematic giant stone statues (moais). The aim of this book is to inform the society about the latest results of scientific research on the socio-cultural…
Tagged with: Ancient Cult, archaeology, Birdman Cult, Chile, climatic change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, Easter Island, ecological collapse, ecology, environmental degradation, etnology, fire, historical engimas, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, Pacific islands, paleoecology, palm forests, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, popular science, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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