Tag: diversity

Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics in a Megadiverse Hotspot

Posted on February 20, 2018 by WDG

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

Pollen-vegetation richness and diversity relationships in the tropics

Posted on October 10, 2017 by WDG

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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

Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes

Posted on November 21, 2016 by WDG

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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

European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2016

Posted on February 26, 2016 by WDG

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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

Publications 2014

Posted on February 12, 2016 by WDG

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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

Environmental controls on the distribution and diversity of lentic Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) across an altitudinal gradient in tropical South America

Posted on December 11, 2015 by WDG

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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

Recent reading

Posted on December 11, 2015 by WDG

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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

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