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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Posted in Books, My publications
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
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Posted in Books, My publications, Science
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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Posted in Books, My publications
Special issue on past plant diversity changes
The journal Quaternary launches a new special issue entitled “Past plant diversity changes” edited by Laura Parducci (Uppsala University, Sweden), Rachid Cheddadi (Université de Montepellier, France) and Keith Bennett (University of St. Andrews, UK). This Special Issue stems from the Conference on Past Plant…
Curso de postgrado de Paleoecología (2018)
La próxima edición del curso de postgrado de Paleoecología que se imparte cada año en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC) tendrá lugar entre el 7 y el 18 de Mayo de 2018. Se trata de…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, climate change, conservation, ecology, environmental degradation, evolution, extinction, fire, global change, history, human disturbance, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, Quaternary, socio-ecology, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in courses, Teaching
Biodiversity of the “Lost World” – Table of Contents
The book “Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropics”, edited by Valentí Rull (Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Barcelona), Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia (University of Barcelona), Otto Huber (Museum of Nature South Tyrol) and Celsa Señaris (Venezuelan Institute…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, ecology, evolution, extinction, fauna, global change, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, Quaternary, South America, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications, Videos
‘Quaternary’ is open for submissions
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the launching of a new open-access journal called “Quaternary” covering all aspects of Quaternary science. “Quaternary” aims to be a high-quality, multidisciplinary and influential journal in the field, for which we have assembled…
Tagged with: abrupt changes, age-depth modelling, anthropocene, anthropogenic warming, archaeology, atmosphere dynamics, biogeochemistry, biotic responses, chronology, climat-human synergies, climate change, climatic modelling, climatic predictions, colonization, community assembly, corals, correlation, cultural evolution, dating, dendroclimatology, dendroecology, diversification, DNA, documentary archives, earth system, ecological dynamics, ecology, evolution, extinction, field methods, fire, forensic scienceç, geograaphy, geology, geomorphology, geophysics, GIS, glaciology, global change, high resolution, Homo sapiens, human disturbance, human evolution, humanization, laboratory methods, laminated sediments, latitudinal diversity gradients, macroecology, migration, mineralogy, monitoring, natural hazards, natural resources, Neanderthal, Neolithic revolution, non-analogue ecosystems, ocean dynamics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleohydrology, paleontology, paleosciences, palynology, petrology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, physical geography, population dynamics, proxies, Quaternary, range shifts, resource management, restoration, risk assessment, sea-level history, sedimentology, soil science, speciation, stratigraphy, succession, tectonics, tree rings, vegetation dynamics, volcanology
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Posted in Journals
