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Posted on February 20, 2018
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Open access: Montoya, E., Keen, H.F., Luzuriaga, C.X. & Gosling, W.D. (2018) Long-term vegetation dynamics in a megadiverse hotspot: The Ice-Age record of a pre-montane forest of central Ecuador. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 196. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00196
Category: Encarni Montoya, Hayley Keen, Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Amazon, Andes, diversity, dynamics, Ecuador, forest, glacial, hotspot, Ice Age, Laguna Pindo, last glacial maximum, long-term, megadiverse, pollen, pre-montane, vegetation
Posted on October 10, 2017
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Online, open access: Gosling, W.D., Julier, A.C.M., Adu-Bredu, S., Djagbletey, G.D., Fraser, W.T., Jardine, P.E., Lomax, B.H., Malhi, Y., Manu, E.A., Mayle, F.E. & Moore, S. (2017) Pollen-vegetation richness and diversity relationships in the tropics. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-017-0642-y
Category: Adele Julier, Journal articles, Phil Jardine, Publications, Wesley Fraser, William GoslingTags: Bolivia, Centenary (1916–2016) of pollen analysis and the legacy of Lennart von Post, diversity, forest, Ghana, Neotropics, Palaeotropics, pollen diversity, pollen traps, savanna, savannah
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 February 26, 2016
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European Conference of Tropical Ecology Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 23-26 February 2016 This is my first time attending the European Conference of Tropical Ecology and my second visit to Germany. The conference attracted c. 350 delegates; big enough to have plenty of interesting science, and yet…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: Achim Breuning, agricultural landscapes, Amazon, Amazonia, biogeography, carbon cycles, cartoon, Christina Ani Setyaaningsih, diversity, El Nino Southern Oscillation, ENSO, European Conference of Tropical Ecology, fig wasps, figs, floristic checklists, Freddie Draper, GBIF, georeferencing, Germany, GTO16, GTOe16, Kartika Hapsari, landscape change, Lourens Poorter, Martine Hossaert-McKay, Maximilian Weigend, metabolism, mutualism, Ravi Prabhu, remote sensing, resilience, Richard Corlett, Society for Tropical Ecology, Sue Page, Sumatra, Taxonomy, tropical peatlands, University Erlangen-Nurnberg, University Goettingen, University of Bonn, University of Leeds, vegetation community, volcanoes, Yadvinder Malhi
Posted on February 12, 2016
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Bush, M.B., de Oliveira, P.E., Raczka, M.F., Gosling, W.D., Mayle, F.E., McMichael, C.H. & Urrego, D.H. (2014) Paleoclimates of Amazonia: An ice-age view. IN: Ribeiro F. & Carvalho, I. (eds.) Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida – Paleoclimas Volume 5. Editora Interciência Ltda., Brazil, pp. 353-368….
Category: Alice Kennedy, Bryan Valencia, Carina Hoorn, Charlotte Miller, Crystal McMichael, Hayley Keen, Macarena Cardenas, Phil Jardine, Summary by year, Wesley FraserTags: Amazon, Amazonia, assemblage, chemistry, creative, diversity, environmental change, forest, freeze–thaw, Ice Age, Lake Bosumtwi, lowland, maturity, microfossils, mudrocks, palaeoclimate, Paleoclimate, pollen, Public Engagement, Quaternary, Sex & Bugs & Rock n Roll, spore, statistical, sub-sampling, tool, tropics, vegetation, West Africa
Posted on December 11, 2015
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Open access online: Matthews-Bird, F., Gosling, W.D., Coe, A.L., Bush, M., Mayle, F.E., Axford, Y. & Brooks, S.J. (2015) Environmental controls on the distribution and diversity of lentic Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) across an altitudinal gradient in tropical South America. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1833…
Category: Frazer Bird, Journal articles, William GoslingTags: Andes, Bolivia, Chironomidae, chironomids, Diptera, distribution, diversity, Ecuador, environmental controls, latitudinal gradient, lentic, Peru, South America
Posted on December 11, 2015
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Brown, J.H. (2014) Why are there so many species in the tropics? Journal of Biogeography 41, 8-22. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12228 Matamoro-Vidal, A., Prieu, C., Furness, C.A., Albert, B. & Gouyon, P. (2016) Evolutionary stasis in pollen morphogenesis due to natural selection. New Phytologist 209, 376-394….
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: Amazonia, conservation, diversity, evolution, extinction, latitudinal gradient, Phytoliths, Pollen morphology, tree, tropics
Posted on June 29, 2015
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By Milan Teunissen van Manen MSc Biological Sciences, University of Amsterdam. As part of my MSc research project on Early-Miocene paleodiversity shifts due to marine incursions in the Amazon basin, I recorded and photographed large numbers of palynomorphs. The database consists of a set…
Category: Data archive, Milan Teunissen van Manen, Online resourcesTags: Amazon, Biological sciences, Carina Hoorn, diversity, images, Mauritidites franciscoi, Miocene, Miocene Amazonian Palynological Diversity, morphology, MSc research project, pollen, Teunissen van Manen, University of Amsterdam, Zonocostites ramonae
Posted on November 2, 2012
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Linnean Society Palynology Specialist Group meeting Linnean Society of London Burlington House 1st November 2012 Yesterday four members of the Palaeoenvironmental Change Research Group (PCRG) visited the Linnean Society of London to attended the annual palynology meeting. The talks were excellent and covered a…
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: diversity, extended pollen counts, Hayley Keen, Linnean Society, Linnean Society Palynology Special Interest Group, model, palynology, pollen, richness, spore, Understanding pollen and spore diversity
Posted on October 31, 2012
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The back end of September and October has been very busy as I have tried to catch up with the teaching, administration and research activity which somewhat accumulated whilst on field work! Major tasks have been: 1) the marking and coordination for level 3 Geological Record of Environmental Change…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: biogeography, diversity, Encarni Montoya, Geological Record of Environmental Change, GIS, Lake Bosumtwi, Linnean Society, Linnean Society Palynology Special Interest Group, midges, NERC Fellowships, Nitrogen isotope, pollen, S369, spore, The Open University
Posted on May 10, 2012
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HOW DO WE UNDERSTANT PAST VEGETATION CHANGE? Our understating of vegetation in the past, and how it has changed through time, comes mainly from the examination of macrofossils (e.g. wood and leaves) and microfossils (e.g. pollen and spores) found in the sedimentary record. The potential…
Category: Comments, Hayley Keen, William GoslingTags: diversity, evenness, fossil record, palynology, pollen, pollen count size, pollen dispersal, pollen sum, richness
Number crunching in palynology
Posted on May 10, 2012 by HayleyKeen
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HOW DO WE UNDERSTANT PAST VEGETATION CHANGE? Our understating of vegetation in the past, and how it has changed through time, comes mainly from the examination of macrofossils (e.g. wood and leaves) and microfossils (e.g. pollen and spores) found in the sedimentary record. The potential…
Category: Comments, Hayley Keen, William GoslingTags: diversity, evenness, fossil record, palynology, pollen, pollen count size, pollen dispersal, pollen sum, richness