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Records of past animals and human ecosystem manipulation

Posted on February 28, 2017 by WDG

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Having recently become an Associate Editor for Vegetation History & Archaeobotany I have decided that I will try and highlight a couple papers from the journal each months which have caught my attention. My first selections are: A study which demonstrated the close relationship…

Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: arboricultural, cattle ranching, charcoal, fossil charcoal, fungal spores, herbivoures, megafauna, New Caledonia Kanak, New England, non pollen palynomorphs, NPP, NPPs, Pacific islands, pre-colonial, Sordaria

Recent reading

Posted on November 20, 2015 by WDG

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Bakker, E.S., Gill, J.L., Johnson, C.N., Vera, F.W.M., Sandom, C.J., Asner, G.P. & Svenning, J. (2015) Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1502545112 Bakker, E.S., Pagès, J.F., Arthur,…

Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: archaeology, biogeography, canids, Chile, Climate change, exclosure, extinction, freshwater ecosystems, functional diversity, geographical ecology, Humans, Landscape History, megafauna, Monte Verde, Neotropics, palaeoclimate, Palma, Quaternary climate oscillations, South America