Pyrenean landscapes were anthropized gradually, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, following a general elevational pattern, from lowlands to highlands. Human settlement, as derived from archaeological evidence, may occur much earlier than irreversible anhtropogenic transformation of landscape, as…
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Spatiotemporal gradients in the anthropization of Pyrenean landscapes
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, human disturbance, Landscape anthropization, Late Holocene, natural resources, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in My publications, 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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Posted in My publications
The Elsevier book on the paleoecology of Easter Island already published!
Editorial summary. This book synthesizes the available paleoecological knowledge from the last millennia of Easter Island to pave the way towards an integrated interdisciplinary vision of the island’s environmental-ecological-cultural system as a complex functional unit. Human and environmental deterministic views…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications
New Springer book on the prehistory of Easter Island
Springer has approved the publication of a new book entitled The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards a Multidisciplinary Integrative Framework, edited by Valentí Rull and Christopher M. Stevenson. The book is aimed at presenting representative papers from a…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Books, My publications, Sin categoría
Posted in Books, My publications, Sin categoría
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
Posted in anthropocene, Society, Unvelievable!
Posted in anthropocene, Society, Unvelievable!
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
Posted in Books, My publications, Science
Posted in Books, My publications, Science
Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
According to the current paradigm, the remote and enigmatic Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have been discovered and settled by Polynesian sailors between about 800 and 1200 CE. However, recent studies using the latest genomic,…
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Paleoecology of Easter Island – new eBook
After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island’s ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. A new eBook published by Frontiers (Lausane, Switzerland) provides a synthetic view of…
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, culture, deforestation, discovery, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, geology, history, human disturbance, journal, methods, migration, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, open access, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogenetics, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications
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
Posted in Quaternary Journal
Posted in Quaternary Journal
