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…
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Plants launches a new special issue on mangroves
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
A new special issue on forest succession
The journal Forests (JIF 2.364, Q1) is launching a new special issue (SI) entitled Forest Succession: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change. The main aim of this SI is to provide an overview of forest successional processes and their…
Tagged with: anthropogenic proxies, biodiversity, climate, climatic proxies, conservation, ecology, Forests, last centuries, last millennia, long-term, paleoclimate, paleoecology, palynology, past, present, succession, successional drivers, trees
Posted in Journals, special issues
Posted in Journals, special issues
Medieval forest dynamics in the Pyrenees
A recent study challenges the idea that present-day Pyrenean landscapes are the result of large-scale anthropogenic deforestation and land degradation that occurred during the Middle Ages. High-resolution (decadal) pollen analysis of sediments from two lakes situated in the lowest (Montcortès)…
Tagged with: conifers, fire, Forests, high-resolution, Iberian Peninsula, Landscape anthropization, last millennium, Middle Ages, palynology, pines, Pyrenees
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
High-mountain forest resilience
Some high-elevation Pyrenean forests remained virtually pristine during the last 4000 years Palynological analysis of the last ca. 4300 cal yr BP using a sediment core taken from high mountain (ca. 1900 m elevation) Lake Sant Maurici sediments (southern-central Pyrenees)…
Tagged with: Catalonia, Conifer forests, Europe, Forests, High mountains, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, lakes, Late Holocene, National Parks, palynology, PNAESM, pollen analysis, Pyrenees, Resilience, sediments
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
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