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…
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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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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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‘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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A new open-access journal on Quaternary science
Valentí Rull has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the new open-access journal called Quaternary published by MDPI publishers based on Basel (Switzerland). MDPI publishes ca. 180 open-access journals, a number of which are listed in the WOS Journal Citation Reports with…
Tagged with: anthropocene, applications, archaeology, associate editors, biogeography, editorial board, evolution, geology, methods, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleoinsights, physical geography, Quaternary
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New Springer book on neotropical diversification
The book proposal on neotropical diversification edited by V. Rull and A. Carnaval has been approved by Springer. The book will gather as many geographical settings, organism groups (including some rarely addressed in this context) and points of view as…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, DNA, evolution, extinction, human disturbance, Neotropics, paleoecology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, Quaternary, South America, speciation, tropics, vegetation dynamics
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Book on the biodiversity of the “Lost World”
The famous novel of Arthur Conan Doyle entitled “The Lost World” was inspired by the remote, enigmatic and still pristine flat summits of the neotropical table mountains known as the Guayana Highlands (GH), whose unique, diverse and largely endemic biota…
Tagged with: Arthur Conan Doyle, biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, ecology, endemism, evolution, Guayana Highlands, Guiana Highlands, Lost World, Neotropics, Pantepui, pristinity, South America, table mountains, tropics, Venezuela
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