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…
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New book on Easter Island’s prehistory
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
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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
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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
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The Elsevier book on the paleoecology of Easter Island already published!
Editorial summary. This book synthesizes the available paleoecological knowledge from the last millennia of Easter Island to pave the way towards an integrated interdisciplinary vision of the island’s environmental-ecological-cultural system as a complex functional unit. Human and environmental deterministic views…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications
New Springer book on the prehistory of Easter Island
Springer has approved the publication of a new book entitled The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards a Multidisciplinary Integrative Framework, edited by Valentí Rull and Christopher M. Stevenson. The book is aimed at presenting representative papers from a…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications, Sin categoría
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
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Posted in Books, My publications
Quaternary Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography
This is the title of a new book published by Elsevier-Academic Press some days ago. Here I reproduce the cover and attach the front matter (freely accessible), with the table of contents and the introduction. The book can be bought…
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