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,…
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Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
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
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…
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
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
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
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
