Posted on March 16, 2019
by WDG
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Hagemans, K., Tóth, C.-D., Ormaza, M., Gosling, W.D., Urrego, D.H., León-Yánez, S., Wagner-Cremer, F. & Donders, T.H. (2019) Modern pollen-vegetation relationships along a steep temperature gradient in the Tropical Andes of Ecuador. Quaternary Research online. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2019.4
Posted on February 27, 2019
by riannevduinen
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This is the first is a series of blog posts based on papers discussed at our “Amsterdam Palaeoecology Club” meetings. The APC meetings are organized to promote palaeoecological discussion and to help the scientific development of our MSc and BSc research students. At each…
Category: ReadingTags: BSc, charcoal, Ecology and evolution, Europe, Fire, forest, Kaplan, last glacial maximum, LGM, mega-herbivours, MSc Biological Sciences, Netherlands, palaeoecology, pollen, University of Amsterdam, UvA, vegetation
Posted on February 22, 2019
by WDG
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I recently joined the editorial board of Plant Ecology & Diversity at the invitation of editor-in-chief Laszlo Nagy (University of Campinas, Brazil). The journal focuses on ecological and evolutionary issues within plant biology with broad themes covering biodiversity, conservation and global change. Furthermore, I think…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Asian, biodiversity, biogeography, bottom-up, double-blind peer review, droughts, ecology, evolution, forest, global change, Grubb Reviews, Lazlo Nagy, mountains, negative results, oak, palaeoecology, plant, plant ecology, Plant Ecology & Diversity, Quercus ilex, repeat experiments, research articles, scientific correspondence, shade, short communications, terrestrial, top-down, tropical, tropics, understory, vegetation
Posted on February 11, 2019
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The Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) 2019 takes place in the 12 and 13 February. This annual showcase of predominantly Dutch based ecological research will take place, as usual, at Conference Centre “De Werelt” (Lunteren). I am particularly excited this year as, along with Marielos…
Category: Meeting, William GoslingTags: 2019, abiotic, agro-forest, Conference, conservation, ecology, fig diversity, fig volatiles, forest, forests, fungi, landscapes, Meeting, NAEM, Neotropics, Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Paramo, pollinator, predator avoidance, prey tracking, rainforest, soil, Specific Leaf Area, sucession, tree, tropical, Tropical Ecology, vegetation
Posted on November 6, 2018
by WDG
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The 2018 edition of the University of Amsterdam masters course “Environments Through Time” is now up and running. The course sits at the interface between ecology, physical geography and archaeology and seeks to provide students with a better understanding of how long-term (>100’s years)…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: archaeology, chronology, climate, ecology, Environments through time, Global Charcoal Database, land use, land-use change, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, multi-proxy, Neotoma, NOAA, Pangea, past environmental change, physical geography, time-series analysis, vegetation
Posted on August 30, 2018
by WDG
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Nolan, C., Overpeck, J.T., Allen, J.R.M., Anderson, P.M., Betancourt, J.L., Binney, H.A., Brewer, S., Bush, M.B., Chase, B.M., Cheddadi, R., Djamali, M., Dodson, J., Edwards, M.E., Gosling, W.D., Haberle, S., Hotchkiss, S.C., Huntley, B., Ivory, S.J., Kershaw, A.P., Kim, S., Latorre, C., Leydet, M.,…
Category: Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: biodiversity, Climate change, community climate system model, composition, direct observations, emission scenario, expert assessment, Future, glacial-to-interglacial, global change, greenhouse gas, high emissions scenario, Holocene, Jackson, last glacial maximum, LGM, macrofossil, models, Nolan, Overpeck, palaeoecology, paleoecology, past, planetry-scale, pollen, structure, temperature, terrestrial ecosystems, transformation, vegetation
Posted on July 20, 2018
by WDG
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AFQUA: The African Quaternary environments, ecology and humans 2ndInternational Conference and Workshops 14-22 July 2018-07-15 National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Day 6 The final day of talks at AFQUA 2018 took a more applied approach in the first session “Applying the Quaternary: The role of…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2018, AFQUA, age vs. depth, applied, aquifers, baysean, charcoal, dating, dongas, East Africa, Fire, forests, Kenya Vision 2030, Lake Victoria, landcover, Landcover6k, landuse, Madagascar, ostrich eggs, PAGES, Paleofire, Past Global Changes, pollen, Quaternary, Radiocarbon, rivers, tree rings, U-Th, UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, University of Nairobi, vegetation, wetlands, working group
