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Posted on February 15, 2018
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Yesterday was the second, and final, day of the Netherlands Annunal Ecology Meeting (NAEM) for 2018. Having stayed up rather later than I would normally for a Tuesday night, due to the the gezellig atmosphere, the scrambled eggs and coffee were very welcome for breakfast….
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: Animal ecology, biodiversity, Biodiversity & Geodiversity in the tropics, complexity, essential biodiversity variables, European bison, geodiversity, Landscape, NAEM, NAEM2018, Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Theoretical & Computational Ecology, wolves
Posted on January 19, 2018
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Since being appointed as an Associate Editor of Vegetation History & Archaeobotany last year I have the pleasure of working on a number of exciting and interesting manuscripts from the tropics. I am particularly delighted that the first of these (Astudillo, 2018) has now…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: archaeology, biodiversity, charcoal, colonizer, Ecuador, Galapagos, Hacienda El Progreso, historical, macrofossils, Phytoliths, sugar
Posted on November 21, 2017
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Job: Post-doctoral researcher Location: Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystems Dyanamics, University of Amsterdam Duration: 3 years Deadline for applications: 10 December 2017 Focus on Global Ecology, including: global biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning, human impacts on biodiversity, biogeography of species interactions, and/or global changes…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: biodiversity, biogeography, ecosystem, ecosystem services, Global Ecology, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, Job, patterns, Post-doc, University of Amsterdam, UvA
Posted on August 31, 2017
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Exciting new edition of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) magazine focused on the sustainability of Earth’s biodiversity. Includes articles by Ecology of the Past blog contributors Dr. Encarni Montoya and Dr. Macarena Cardenas. To find out more check out the full issue (free): Gillson,…
Posted on November 21, 2016
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Online: Cuesta, F., Muriel, P., Llambí, L.D., Halloy, S., Aguirre, N., Beck, S., Carilla, J., Meneses, R.I., Cuello, S., Grau, A., Gámez, L.E., Irazábal, J., Jácome, J., Jaramillo, R., Ramírez, L., Samaniego, N., Suárez-Duque, D., Thompson, N., Tupayachi, A., Viñas, P., Yager, K., Becerra,…
Category: Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Andes, biodiversity, biogeography, diversity, Gloria, mountains, Paramo, Puna, summits
Posted on July 12, 2016
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Biodiversity and the functioning of tropical forests PhD defense University of Wageningen Candidate: Masha T. van der Sande Date: 06/07/2016 Watch Masha’s thesis defense on WUR TV (featuring W.D. Gosling as an opponent…) Click here to watch the video
Category: Online resources, PhD thesis, William GoslingTags: biodiversity, defence, forest, functioning, Netherlands, PhD, Thesis, tropical, Wageningen University
Posted on July 5, 2016
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Category: News, William GoslingTags: biodiversity, Europeans, forest, function, Human impacts, Jasper van Ruijven, Masha van der Sande, PhD defense, productivity, tropical, University of Amsterdam, University of Oxford, Wageningen University, Yadvinder Malhi
Posted on February 10, 2016
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Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) 2016 9 February 2016 Conference Centre “De Werelt”, Lunteren The annual Dutch ecology conference is being held over two days at the in “remote” Lunteren and I am pleased to be able to attend all of the conference this year….
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: 150 years, Bart Knols, biodiversity, cascade effects, Dries Kuijper, ecology, ecosystem, Europe, fear, forest, Haeckel, immunology, Irene Tieleman, Masha van der Sande, Neotropics, parasitism, Peter Hudson, regrowth, scale, science communication, traits, tropcial, Ungulates, wolf, wolves
Posted on October 30, 2015
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Haffer, J. (1969) Speciation in Amazonian forest birds. Science 165, 131-137. DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3889.131 Mackenzie, G., Boa, A.N., Taboada, A.D., Atkin, S.L. & Sathyapalan, T. (2015) Sporopollenin, the least known yet toughest natural biopolymer. Frontiers in Materials 2. DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2015.00066 Nelson, B.W., Ferreira, C.A.C., da Silva, M.F. &…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: Amazon, Austrocedrus chilensis, biodiversity, biopolymer, birds, botanical collection density, Brazilian Amazon, endemism, Haffer, ice ages, paleodistribution models, phylogeography, refugia, speciation, sporopollenin
Posted on October 9, 2015
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Journal articles Clement, C.R., Denevan, W.M., Heckenberger, M.J., Junqueira, A.B., Neves, E.G., Teixeira, W.G. & Woods, W.I. (2015) The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0813 Oliver, T.H., Heard, M.S., Isaac, N.J.B., Roy, D.B., Procter,…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: 1492, Andean flank, arboriculture, archaeology, biodiversity, BSc, De Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, ecosystem, Ecuador, European conquest, function, Ghana, Kintampo, Landscape History, Neotropics, Oil palm, Oliver Rackham, palaeoecology, Pleistocene, pollen representivity, pollination, Quaternary, resilience, subsistence farming, Tropical Ecology, University of Amsterdam, UvA, western Amazonia
Posted on October 6, 2015
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Whilst conducting her PhD research Hayley Keen helped produced two of short films about her research project Past environmental change on the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador: on her field work, which was the winning entry into the American Geophysical Union (AGU) student video competition in 2014, and…
Category: Hayley Keen, Online resources, William GoslingTags: 2014, AGU, Amazon, American Geophysical Union, Andes, biodiversity, charcoal, competition, Ecuador, field work, fossil record, macro-fossils, Mera, Neotropics, OU, palaeoecology, PhD, pollen, Rio Tigre, student, The Open University, video
Posted on September 30, 2015
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Keen, H.F. (2015) Past environmental change on the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador. PhD Thesis, Department of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open University. Abstract The eastern Andean flank of Ecuador (EAF) contains some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. Andean montane forests are threatened…
Category: Hayley Keen, PhD thesisTags: Alnus, biodiversity, cloud forest, Department of Environment Earth and Ecosystems, Earth, eastern Andean flank, Ecosystems, Ecuador, Environment, environmental change, flora, fluvial, forest, glacial, Hayley Keen, Hedyosmum, Ilex, lower montane forest, lowland forest, Mera, Mera Tigre, montane, OU, palaeoecology, palynology, Past environmental change on the eastern Andean flank, PhD, Podocarpus, pollen, sampling theory, sediments, The Open University, Thesis, upper montane forest, Wettinia
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