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
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, 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
Posted in Journals
Posted in Journals
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
Posted in My publications, special issues
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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Posted in My publications
A new perspective on the origin of Neotropical mangroves
Mangroves are forested ecosystems that dominate tropical and subtropical coasts all over the world. Currently, these ecosystems are thought to have originated in the Cretaceous, on the coasts of the former Tethys Sea, and evolved into divergent Paleotropical and Neotropical…
Tagged with: Caribbean, Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, mangrove forests, mangroves, Neotropics, palynology, Pelliciera, pollen, tea mangrove
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Posted in My publications
Inductive predictions in biology
Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry? The possibility of using prediction in biology as an inductive method is hampered by the lack of fundamental laws that can be formulated mathematically.…
Tagged with: accomodation, Biology, chemistry, Dark matter, evolution, fundamental laws, generalization, Higgs bosson, hypothesis testing, inductive prediction, mathematics, Mendeleev, Periodic law, Periodic table, physics, prediction
Posted in My publications, Science, Society
Posted in My publications, Science, Society
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
Are we in the Anthropozoic era?
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…
Tagged with: anthropocene, Anthropozoic, Cenozoic, epoch, era, evolution, extinction, global change, human evolution, period, Quaternary, series, stratigraphy, system
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Posted in My publications
Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes – Just Published!
Editorial summary: This newly published book provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in a wide of Neotropical biomes and ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their historical biogeographies and underlying diversification processes. All chapters have been…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, climate change, conservation, diversification, DNA, ecology, evolution, extinction, Neogene, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, phylogeography, Quaternary, South America, speciation
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
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…
valentirull.net 