According to the current paradigm, the remote and enigmatic Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have been discovered and settled by Polynesian sailors between about 800 and 1200 CE. However, recent studies using the latest genomic,…
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Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Biodiversity of the “Lost World” – Table of Contents
The book “Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropics”, edited by Valentí Rull (Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Barcelona), Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia (University of Barcelona), Otto Huber (Museum of Nature South Tyrol) and Celsa Señaris (Venezuelan Institute…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, ecology, evolution, extinction, fauna, global change, Neotropics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, Quaternary, South America, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Books, My publications, Videos
Posted in Books, My publications, Videos
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
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Posted in Books, My publications
Book on the biodiversity of the “Lost World”
The famous novel of Arthur Conan Doyle entitled “The Lost World” was inspired by the remote, enigmatic and still pristine flat summits of the neotropical table mountains known as the Guayana Highlands (GH), whose unique, diverse and largely endemic biota…
Tagged with: Arthur Conan Doyle, biodiversity, biogeography, conservation, ecology, endemism, evolution, Guayana Highlands, Guiana Highlands, Lost World, Neotropics, Pantepui, pristinity, South America, table mountains, tropics, Venezuela
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Neotropical diversification – the book
In November 2016, Springer contacted me to write a book on neotropical diversification. I proposed an edited book including as many views as possible on this fascinating topic and inivted Ana Carnaval, from the City University of New York, to…
Tagged with: biodiversity, climatic change, diversification, extinction, Mesoamerica, Neogene, Neotropics, paleogeography, Pleistocene, Quaternary, South America, speciation, tectonics, tropical America
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Posted in Books
