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…
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What do Easter Island, the Pyrenees and the Caribbean have in common?
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
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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
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Antoni Rosell-Melé
It is very sad to lose a close colleague who is in his scientific prime. It is also very shameful to realize the poor coverage that local media and scientific institutions, including his own, have devoted to the decease of…
Tagged with: biomarkers, climate change, organic chemistry, paleoceanography, Pleistocene, Pliocene
Posted in People, Science
Posted in People, Science
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
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Posted in Books, My publications
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