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
Quaternary has received its first CiteScore and is waiting for its Impact Factor Index
The open-access journal Quaternary was launched in 2018 and this year has received its first CiteScore from Scopus, which situates this publication among those with the greatest impact in the specialty In 2017, the scientific publisher MDPI commissioned me to…
Tagged with: anthropology, archaeology, biogeography, diversification, evolution, geochemistry, geomorphology, glaciations, Holocene, interglacials, paleoclimates, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sedimentology
Posted in Journals
Posted in Journals
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
New book on Easter Island’s prehistory
The book “The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework” (Springer Nature), edited by V. Rull and C.M. Stevenson, has been sent to the press and will be issued early next year This book addresses the…
Tagged with: archaeology, biogeography, climate change, cultural collapse, deforestation, demography, Easter Island, ecology, history, human disturbance, last centuries, last millennium, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, prehistory, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Montcortès: a unique Mediterranean paleoecological record of the last 3000 years
The Pyrenean Lake Montcortès sediments hold the longest continuous and absolutely varve-dated record of the Mediterranean region, encompassing the last three millennia, from the Late Bronze Age to the present. The high-resolution paleoecological reconstruction of the Montcortès sequence using pollen…
Tagged with: anthropization, Bronze Age, climate change, Contemporary Times, cultivation, deforestation, ecology, fire, grazing, hemp Cannabis, human disturbance, Iron Age, lad use, Last millenia, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Montcortès, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, retting, Roman Empire, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Spatiotemporal gradients in the anthropization of Pyrenean landscapes
Pyrenean landscapes were anthropized gradually, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, following a general elevational pattern, from lowlands to highlands. Human settlement, as derived from archaeological evidence, may occur much earlier than irreversible anhtropogenic transformation of landscape, as…
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, human disturbance, Landscape anthropization, Late Holocene, natural resources, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
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
Are we in the Anthropozoic era?
The manuscript entitled: The Anthropozoic era revisited, by V. Rull, has been accepted for publication in the journal Lethaia. The abstract is provided below. Abstract: This paper explains in some detail the poorly known proposal of Stoppani (1873) regarding the…
Tagged with: anthropocene, Anthropozoic, Cenozoic, epoch, era, evolution, extinction, global change, human evolution, period, Quaternary, series, stratigraphy, system
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation
The manuscript entitled: Pristinity, degradation and replacement: the three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation, by V. Rull, has been accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Physical Geography. The abstract is reproduced below. Abstract: This paper presents…
Tagged with: anthropocene, biodiversity, biogeography, climate change, colonization, conservation, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, global change, history, human disturbance, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Quaternary, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
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