Mangroves are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Understanding how these ecosystems responded to past natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change is essential not only for understanding how extant mangroves have been shaped but also for informing their conservation.…
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The Caribbean mangroves: climatic, eustatic and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change
Tagged with: Caribbean, climate change, deforestation, Holocene, human impact, mangroves, Neotropics, paleoecology, palynology, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sea level
Posted in My publications, special issues
Posted in My publications, special issues
What do Easter Island, the Pyrenees and the Caribbean have in common?
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…
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
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
Posted in My publications
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
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
The success of Neotropical Diversification
Springer Nature has just reported that our book entitled “Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes“, included in the collection “Biomedical and Life Sciences”, is being highly successful within the scientific community. Since its publication in 2020, the book has received more…
Tagged with: algae, animals, biodiversity, Caribbean, Central America, diversification, Neotropics, North America, plants, South America
Posted in biodiversity, Books, My publications
Posted in biodiversity, Books, My publications
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
What is the most biodiverse tropical region?
According to a recent paper by Peter Raven and collaborators, the Neotropics is the most biodiverse tropical region in absolute terms, encompassing one third of global diversity, but Southeast Asia is proportionally richer if we consider its smaller area. Reference:…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, Neotropics, tropics
Posted in biodiversity, Research papers
Posted in biodiversity, Research papers
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
Biodiversity of the Lost World
The book “Biodiversity of Pantepui, the Pristine Lost World of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands”, edited by V. Rull, T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia, O. Huber and C Señaris, is already published in Paperback and eBook formats. See the Elsevier website. This book provides…
Tagged with: algae, amphibians, animals, aquatic insects, biodiversity, biogeography, birds, Brasil, butterflies, climate, climate change, conservation, ecology, evolution, global warming, Guayana, Guiana, Guiana Highlands, Guyana, Lost World, mammals, Neotropics, paleoclimate, paleoecology, Pantepui, plants, reptiles, scorpions, snails, Venezuela
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes
The book “Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes”, edited by V. Rull and A. C. Carnaval, which will be issued in March 2020, can already be pre-ordered at the Springer website in Hardcover and eBook versions. This book provides a comprehensive…
Tagged with: biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, evolution, latitudinal diversity gradients, Miocene, molecular phylogenetics, Neogene, Neotropics, phylofeography, Pliocene, Quaternary, tropics
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
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