Tag: tropics
Posted on March 2, 2018
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Hi all! My name is Britte Heijink and I’m doing my MSc Biological Science thesis research project with Crystal McMichael and William Gosling. I travelled with Veerle Vink and Crystal to the Colombian part of Amazonia to collect samples for my project. At Amacayacu…
Category: NewsTags: Amacayacu National Park, Amazonia, Beta gamma, BSc, BSc Bèta-Gamma, charcoal, Colombia, fire history, Liberal Arts and Sciences, microscope, MSc, MSc Biological Sciences, Oerknal, palaeoecology, Panama, Phytoliths, plots, project, rainforest, research, soil, Thesis, tropical, tropics, University of Amsterdam, vegetation, vegetation history
Posted on January 26, 2018
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Mark Bush and I are proud to announce that a tribute to Prof. Daniel Livingston and Prof. Paul Colinvaux has recently been published in Quaternary Research. Dan and Paul were both pioneers of tropical pal(a)eoecology and both died in the spring of 2016 ….
Category: Journal articles, News, Publications, William GoslingTags: Africa, African humid period, Amazon, Andean, Andean flank, Andes, Brazil, Cameroon, central Africa, Daniel Livingstone, Derek Booth, diatoms, East Africa, extinction, forest, fragmentation, fungal, glacial, Holocene, Humans, Ice Age, igapo, Lake Edward, Lake Ejagham, Mark Bush, megafauna, montane forest, Neotropics, non pollen palynomorphs, NPP, NPPs, palaeoecology, Palaeotropics, paleoecology, Paul Colinvaux, pollen, Quaternary Research, Rio Negro, South America, Special Issue, tribute, tropics, Zambia
Posted on July 26, 2017
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The images taken by Adele Julier to help her with pollen identifications during her PhD at The Open University (UK) are now available to download. Please note these images are not of reference material but identifications, made by Adele and myself, of the pollen…
Category: Adele Julier, Data archive, Publications, William GoslingTags: Ankasa, Bobiri, forest-savanna transition, forest-savannah transition, Ghana, images, Kogyae, modern pollen rain, moist semi-deciduous forest, palynology, pollen, Pollen trap, tropics, wet evergreen forest
Posted on July 20, 2017
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Dear Ecology of the past blog readers, This time you are reading a message from a non-expert in paleoecology. My name is Masha and I will spend the next two years on a very exciting postdoctoral fellowship funded by NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation)…
Category: Masha van der Sande, NewsTags: Amazon, Amazonia, Biodiversity and the functioning of tropical forests, Brazil, Dutch National Science Foundation, Ecological Monographs, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Tech, Mark Bush, Masha van der Sande, Netherlands, NWO, Old-growth Neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition, palaeoecology, PFT, Plant functional traits, Rubicon, South America, tropics, UK, University of Amsterdam, USA, UvA
Posted on July 6, 2017
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I discovered what I think is the first colour pollen diagram this week. Published in 1948 and still looks beautiful. Selling, O.H. (1948) On the late Quaternary history of the Hawaiian vegetation. PhD thesis, University of Stockholm, Honolulu, Hawaii. Images of the copy held…
Category: Comments, Reading, William GoslingTags: 1948, colour, fossil pollen, Hawaiian, palynology, PhD thesis, pollen, pollen diagram, Selling, tropics, University of Stockholm, vegetation
Posted on November 8, 2016
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Seminar Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Tropical forests in the Anthropocene by Prof. Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford) 16:00-17:00, 24 November 2016 Science Park, Amsterdam If you want to attend please click here for full details. ABSTRACT:
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Anthropocene, Biomes, Climate change, CO2, conservation, Earth system, ecology, forest, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, landscape fragmentation, tropics, University of Amsterdam, Universuty of Oxford, wood extraction, Yadvinder Malhi
Posted on October 28, 2016
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Hall, S.A. (2010) Early maize pollen from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA. Palynology 34, 125-137. DOI: 10.1080/01916121003675746 Janzen, D.H. (1967) Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics. The American Naturalist 101, 233-249. DOI: 10.1086/282487 Tovar, C., Arnillas, C.A., Cuesta, F. & Buytaert, W….
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: agriculture, Americas, Andes, Biomes, Climate change, high, Maize, mountain passes, tropics, USA, Zea mays
Posted on August 25, 2016
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Bertola, L.D., Jongbloed, H., van, d.G., de Knijff, P., Yamaguchi, N., Hooghiemstra, H., Bauer, H., Henschel, P., White, P.A., Driscoll, C.A., Tende, T., Ottosson, U., Saidu, Y., Vrieling, K. & de Iongh, H.H. (2016) Phylogeographic Patterns in Africa and High Resolution Delineation of Genetic…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: Africa, Anthropocene, CH4, China, genetic clades, glacial, Lion, methane, Panthera leo, peatland, phyolgeography, subtropical, tropics
Posted on July 21, 2016
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Shanahan, T.M., Hughen, K.A., McKay, N.P., Overpeck, J.T., Scholz, C.A., Gosling, W.D., Miller, C.S., Peck, J.A., King, J.W. & Heil, C.W. (2016) CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change. Scientific Reports 6, 29587. DOI: 10.1038/srep29587
Category: Charlotte Miller, Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Africa, charcoal, climate, Climate change, CO2, Fire, Ghana, Lake Bosumtwi, stability, tropics, vegetation
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 January 22, 2016
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In the news Ancient ‘massacre’ unearthed near Lake Turkana, Kenya, by Anon. BBC News: Africa Bronze Age houses uncovered in Cambridgeshire are Britain’s ‘Pompeii’ , by Anon. BBC News: Cambridgeshire Scientists weigh in on ‘giraffe relative’ fossil by Helen Briggs. BBC News: Science & Environment…
Category: ReadingTags: Africa, Amazonia, Arctic, d18O, Devils Hole, Humans, Hydroecology, Lake Quistococha, Lake Turkana, mammoth, massacre, Peru, speleothem, testate amoebae, tropics
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
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Pollen diagrams in colour!
Posted on July 6, 2017 by WDG
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I discovered what I think is the first colour pollen diagram this week. Published in 1948 and still looks beautiful. Selling, O.H. (1948) On the late Quaternary history of the Hawaiian vegetation. PhD thesis, University of Stockholm, Honolulu, Hawaii. Images of the copy held…
Category: Comments, Reading, William GoslingTags: 1948, colour, fossil pollen, Hawaiian, palynology, PhD thesis, pollen, pollen diagram, Selling, tropics, University of Stockholm, vegetation