After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island’s ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. A new eBook published by Frontiers (Lausane, Switzerland) provides a synthetic view of…
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Paleoecology of Easter Island – new eBook
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, culture, deforestation, discovery, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, geology, history, human disturbance, journal, methods, migration, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, open access, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogenetics, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications
‘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
