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15,000-yr Pollen Record of Vegetation change in the High Altitude Tropical Andes at Laguna Verde Alta, Venezuela

article published in 2005

A 20 th -century Cannabis pollen increase in a Pyrenean varved record and its potential causes

A 70,000 year multiproxy record of climatic and environmental change from Rano Aroi peatland (Easter Island)

scientific article published in September 2013

A Continuous Centennial Late Glacial-Early Holocene (15–10 cal kyr BP) Palynological Record from the Iberian Pyrenees and Regional Comparisons

scientific article published in 2023

A Continuous Palynological Record of Forest Clearing at Rano Kao (Easter Island, SE Pacific) During the Last Millennium: Preliminary Report

A Middle Wisconsin interstadial in the northern Andes

scientific article published in 2005

A futurist perspective on the Anthropocene

A high mountain pollen-altitude calibration set for palaeoclimatic use in the tropical Andes

A method of introducing exotic pollen for paleoecological analysis of sediments

article

A millennium-long perspective of flood-related seasonal sediment yield in Mediterranean watersheds

scholarly article

A morphometric study of early Miocene Mauritiidites from Northern South America

scientific article published in 2001

A palynological record of a secondary succession after fire in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela

A quantitative palynological record from the early Miocene of Western Venezuela, with emphasis on mangroves

scholarly article by Valentí Rull published December 2001 in Palynology

A spatiotemporal gradient in the anthropization of Pyrenean landscapes. Preliminary report

A unique Pyrenean varved record provides a detailed reconstruction of Mediterranean vegetation and land-use dynamics over the last three millennia

Abrupt Younger Dryas cooling in the northern tropics recorded in lake sediments from the Venezuelan Andes

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An 8700-year record of the interplay of environmental and human drivers in the development of the southern Gran Sabana landscape, SE Venezuela

An Updated Review of Fossil Pollen Evidence for the Study of the Origin, Evolution and Diversification of Caribbean Mangroves

scientific article published in 2023

An evaluation of the Lost World and Vertical Displacement hypotheses in the Chimantá Massif, Venezuelan Guayana

scientific article published in 2004

An illustrated key for the identification of pollen from Pantepui and the gran sabana (Eastern Venezuelan Guayana)

Are we willing to build a better future?

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Bacterial phylogenetic markers in lake sediments as evidence for historical hemp retting

Beyond us. Is a world without humans possible?

scientific article (publication date: November 2009)

Biodiversity crisis or sixth mass extinction?

scientific article published in 2021

Biodiversity crisis or sixth mass extinction?

Biogeographical and evolutionary considerations of Mauritia (Arecaceae), based on palynological evidence

article

Biological predictions: long-term periodic processes

Biopiracy rules hinder conservation efforts

scientific article published in Nature

Biotic diversification in the Guayana Highlands: a proposal

article published in 2005

Bronze Age to Medieval vegetation dynamics and landscape anthropization in the southern-central Pyrenees

scientific article published in 2021

Bureaucratic obstruction of conservation science in the Guayana Highlands

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

CLAFS, a Holistic Climatic-Ecological-Anthropogenic Hypothesis on Easter Island's Deforestation and Cultural Change: Proposals and Testing Prospects

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Challenging Easter Island's collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies

scientific article published in 2013

Climate and human impact on a meromictic lake during the last 6,000 years (Montcortès Lake, Central Pyrenees, Spain)

scholarly article

Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records

Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers of Forest Succession in the Iberian Pyrenees during the Last 500 Years: A Statistical Approach

Climatic and ecological history of Pantepui and surrounding areas with biogeographical and evolutionary considerations

scholarly article published 28 October 2018

Conservation of the unique neotropical vascular flora of the Guayana Highlands in the face of global warming

scientific article

Conservation, human values and democracy: What can turn humankind from the path of environmental exploitation and destruction?

scientific article

Contribution of non-pollen palynomorphs to the paleolimnological study of a high-altitude Andean lake (Laguna Verde Alta, Venezuela)

scholarly article

Contribution of quantitative ecological methods to the interpretation of stratigraphically homogeneous pre‐quaternary sediments: A palynological example from the oligocene of Venezuela

Contributions of paleoecology to Easter Island’s prehistory: A thorough review

Crops and weeds from the Estany de Montcortès catchment, central Pyrenees, during the last millennium: a comparison of palynological and historical records

Diatom-inferred ecological responses of an oceanic lake system to volcanism and anthropogenic perturbations since 1290 CE

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Drought, freshwater availability and cultural resilience on Easter Island (SE Pacific) during the Little Ice Age

scientific article published in 2020

Early human occupation and land use changes near the boundary of the Orinoco and the Amazon basins (SE Venezuela): Palynological evidence from El Paují record

scholarly article

Ecological palaeoecology in the neotropical Gran Sabana region: Long-term records of vegetation dynamics as a basis for ecological hypothesis testing

article

Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective

scientific article published in 2010

Editorial: Palaeoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change

scientific article published in 2018

Editorial: Palynology and Vegetation History

Elevational gradients in the neotropical table mountains: patterns of endemism and implications for conservation

article by Sandra Nogué et al published 4 December 2012 in Diversity and Distributions

Eocene/Oligocene global disruption and the revolution of Caribbean mangroves

scientific article published in 2023

Erratum to: “Palaeofloristic and palaeovegetational changes across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in northern South America” [Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 107 (1999) 83–95]

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Establishing a baseline of plant diversity and endemism on a neotropical mountain summit for future comparative studies assessing upward migration: an approach from biogeography and nature conservation

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First records and potential palaeoecological significance of Dianella (Xanthorrhoeaceae), an extinct representative of the native flora of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Food security: green revolution drawbacks

scientific article published in April 2010

Forest–savanna–morichal dynamics in relation to fire and human occupation in the southern Gran Sabana (SE Venezuela) during the last millennia

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Free science under threat: The current revival of Bernalism and the use of market-based scientific practices are undermining science as we know it.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Global warming, habitat shifts and potential refugia for biodiversity conservation in the neotropical Guayana Highlands

article

Gran Sabana fires (SE Venezuela): a paleoecological perspective

scholarly article

Grazing activities in the southern central Pyrenees during the last millennium as deduced from the non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) record of Lake Montcortès

article

Green Revolution, Future Prospects for

High-resolution (sub-decadal) pollen analysis of varved sediments from Lake Montcortès (southern Pyrenean flank): A fine-tuned record of landscape dynamics and human impact during the last 500 years

article

Historical biogeography of Cannabis in the Iberian Peninsula: palynological evidence

Historical shifts in oxygenation regime as recorded in the laminated sediments of lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) support hypoxia as a continental-scale phenomenon.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Holocene global warming and the origin of the Neotropical Gran Sabana in the Venezuelan Guayana

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Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Apakará summit of the neotropical Guayana Highlands and potential environmental drivers

article

Human Discovery and Settlement of the Remote Easter Island (SE Pacific)

Human Settlement and Landscape Anthropization of Remote Oceanic Islands: A Comparison between Rapa Nui (Pacific Ocean) and the Azores (Atlantic Ocean)

scientific article published in 2023

Impact of the historical introduction of exotic fishes on the chironomid community of Lake Azul (Azores Islands)

scientific article published in January 2017

Inductive prediction in biology

Introduction

Is the "Lost World" really lost? Palaeoecological insights into the origin of the peculiar flora of the Guayana Highlands

article published in 2004

Late Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics on the summits of the Guayana Highlands: The Uei-tepui palynological record

scholarly article by Elisabet Safont published in August 2016

Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and deforestation in Rano Aroi: Implications for Easter Island's ecological and cultural history

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Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela

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Late-Holocene forest resilience in the central Pyrenean highlands as deduced from pollen analysis of Lake Sant Maurici sediments

Long-term vegetation dynamics of a tropical megadelta: Mid-Holocene palaeoecology of the Orinoco Delta (NE Venezuela)

Long-term vegetation stability and the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Neotropics

Macrofossils in Raraku Lake (Easter Island) integrated with sedimentary and geochemical records: towards a palaeoecological synthesis for the last 34,000 years

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Macrorefugia and microrefugia: a response to Tzedakis et al.

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Mauritia flexuosa palm swamp communities: natural or human-made? A palynological study of the Gran Sabana region (northern South America) within a neotropical context

scholarly article

Medieval forest dynamics in the Iberian Pyrenees: a comparison between low- and high-mountain areas

Microrefugia

article published in 2009

Middle Eocene Mangroves and Vegetation Changes in the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela

scholarly article by Valenti Rull published June 1998 in PALAIOS

Middle and late Holocene climate change and human impact inferred from diatoms, algae and aquatic macrophyte pollen in sediments from Lake Montcortès (NE Iberian Peninsula)

scholarly article

Millennial-scale precipitation variability over Easter Island (South Pacific) during MIS 3: inter-hemispheric teleconnections with North Atlantic abrupt cold events

Modeling biodiversity loss by global warming on Pantepui, northern South America: projected upward migration and potential habitat loss

scholarly article

Modern Analogue Approach Applied to High-Resolution Varved Sediments—A Synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees)

Modern non-pollen palynomorphs sedimentation along an elevational gradient in the south-central Pyrenees (southwestern Europe) as a tool for Holocene paleoecological reconstruction

Modern pollen—vegetation relationships along an altitudinal transect in the central Pyrenees (southwestern Europe)

Modern sedimentary analogues and integrated monitoring to understand varve formation in the Mediterranean Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees, Spain)

scientific article published in May 2018

Natural and anthropogenic drivers of cultural change on Easter Island: Review and new insights

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Neotropical biodiversity: timing and potential drivers

scientific article published on June 23, 2011

Neotropical diversification: historical overview and conceptual insights

Neotropical diversification: historical overview and conceptual insights

Neotropical vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climates as analogs for future climate change scenarios and lessons for conservation

scholarly article

New insights on palaeofires and savannisation in northern South America

scholarly article

New palaeoecological evidence for the potential role of fire in the Gran Sabana, Venezuelan Guayana, and implications for early human occupation

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Non-pollen palynomorph studies in the Neotropics: The case of Venezuela

Oligo‐miocene palynology of the Rio Chama sequence (Western Venezuela), with comments on fossil algae as paleoenvironmental indicators

scholarly article by Valenti Rull published in December 1997

On microrefugia and cryptic refugia

On predictions and laws in biological evolution

On predictions and laws in biological evolution: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or chemistry?: Is biology able to formulate general laws and develop inductive predictions as in physics or che

On the Use of Paleoecological Evidence to Assess the Role of Humans in the Origin of the Gran Sabana (Venezuela)

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Origin, early expansion, domestication and anthropogenic diffusion of Cannabis, with emphasis on Europe and the Iberian Peninsula

Origins of Biodiversity

scientific article published in Science

PRESENT CLIMATE OF LAKE MONTCORTÈS (CENTRAL PYRENEES): PALEOCLIMATIC RELEVANCE AND INSIGHTS ON FUTURE WARMING

Palaeobiodiversity and taxonomic resolution: linking past trends with present patterns

article published in 2012

Palaeoclimates and Amazon biodiversity

Palaeoecology of pleniglacial sediments from the Venezuelan Andes. Palynological record of El Caballo stadial, sedimentation rates and glacier retreat

Palaeoinsights—Editorial Tips

Paleoecology of Easter Island: Evidence and uncertainties

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Paleoecology of the Guayana Highlands (northern South America): Holocene pollen record from the Eruoda-tepui, in the Chimantá massif

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Paleoenvironmental trends in Venezuela during the last glacial cycle

scientific article

Palynological signal of the Younger Dryas in the tropical Venezuelan Andes

scholarly article

Past natural history and ecological biodiversity modelling

scientific article published in 2012

Plant communities and environmental factors in the Guayana Highlands: monitoring for conservation under future climate change

article

Pleistocene speciation is not refuge speciation

Potential Responses of Vascular Plants from the Pristine "Lost World" of the Neotropical Guayana Highlands to Global Warming: Review and New Perspectives

scientific article

Potential migration routes and barriers for vascular plants of the Neotropical Guyana Highlands during the Quaternary

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Potential natural vegetation and pre-anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context

Prehistoric Paleoecology of Easter Island

Preliminary report on a mid-19th century Cannabis pollen peak in NE Spain: Historical context and potential chronological significance

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Preselection area of a representative aerobiological sampling station of a tropical valley.

scientific article published on January 1989

Present climate of lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees): paleoclimatic relevance and insights on future warming

scientific article published in 2022

Pristinity, degradation and replacement: The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Quaternary Highlights (December 2018–February 2019)

Quaternary Highlights (July–September 2018)

Quaternary Highlights (September–December 2018)

Quaternary palaeoecology and nature conservation: a general review with examples from the neotropics

scholarly article

Quaternary speciation in the Neotropics

scientific article published in November 2006

Quaternary—A Multidisciplinary Integrative Journal to Cope with a Complex World

Reply to a comment by Dirszowsky, R.W., Mahaney, W.C., Kalm, V., and Beukens, R. on ‘A Middle Wisconsin interstadial in the northern Andes’ (Rull, V., 2005. JSAES 19, 173–179)

scientific article published in 2006

Reply: Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: response to comment

Resilience of Pyrenean Forests after Recurrent Historical Deforestations

Responses of Caribbean Mangroves to Quaternary Climatic, Eustatic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change: A Review

scientific article published in 2022

Revisiting the role of high-energy Pacific events in the environmental and cultural history of Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Seasonal effects of water temperature and dissolved oxygen on the isoGDGT proxy (TEX86) in a Mediterranean oligotrophic lake

Seasonal patterns of pollen sedimentation in Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) and potential applications to high-resolution paleoecology: a 2-year pilot study

scholarly article

Sequence analysis of Western Venezuelan cretaceous to Eocene sediments using Palynology: Chronopaleoenvironmental and paleovegetational approaches

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Sequence analysis of western Venezuelan cretaceous to Eocene sediments using palynology: Chrono‐paleoenvironmental and paleovegetational approaches: Discussion & reply

scholarly article by Valentí Rull published in December 1999

Solar modulation of Little Ice Age climate in the tropical Andes

scholarly article

Some problems in the study of the origin of neotropical biodiversity using palaeoecological and molecular phylogenetic evidence

article

Speciation timing and neotropical biodiversity: the Tertiary-Quaternary debate in the light of molecular phylogenetic evidence

scientific article

Strong Fuzzy EHLFS: A General Conceptual Framework to Address Past Records of Environmental, Ecological and Cultural Change

Successional Patterns of the Gran Sabana (Southeastern Venezuela) Vegetation During the Last 5000 Years, and Its Responses to Climatic Fluctuations and Fire

article

Surface Palynology of a Small Coastal Basin from Venezuela and Potential Paleoecological Applications

scholarly article by Valentí Rull published in January 1999

Sustainability, capitalism and evolution. Nature conservation is not a matter of maintaining human development and welfare in a healthy environment

scientific article

Taxon Cycles in Neotropical Mangroves

scientific article published in 2023

Taxon cycles in Neotropical mangroves

The "Anthropocene": neglects, misconceptions, and possible futures: The term "Anthropocene" is often erroneously used, as it is not formally defined yet.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

The 1.5-ka varved record of Lake Montcortès (southern Pyrenees, NE Spain)

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The Anthropozoic era revisited

scientific article published in 2021

The Caribbean Mangroves: an Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors

The EIRA Database: Glacial to Holocene Radiocarbon Ages from Easter Island's Sedimentary Records

scientific article published in 2016

The Great American Biotic Interchange revisited

scientific article published in 2010

The Guayana Highlands: A Promised (but Threatened) Land for Ecological and Evolutionary Science

The Lost World's pristinity at risk

scientific article published in 2016

The Neogene-Quaternary diversification trend in the shaping of modern Caribbean mangroves

The Neogene-Quaternary diversification trend in the shaping of modern Caribbean mangroves

The Orinoco megadelta as a conservation target in the face of the ongoing and future sea level rise

scientific article

The candid approach. Scientists should insist on a purely scientific approach to preserving biodiversity

scientific article

The deforestation of Easter Island

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The humanized Earth system (HES)

The influences of the AMO and NAO on the sedimentary infill in an Azores Archipelago lake since ca. 1350 CE

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The most important application of science: As scientists have to justify research funding with potential social benefits, they may well add education to the list

scientific article

The neotropical Gran Sabana region: Palaeoecology and conservation

The ‘Anthropocene’: A requiem for the Geologic Time Scale?

scholarly article

Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview

article published in 2016

Time's arrow: Left or right?

Time, evolution and physical reductionism. The arrow of evolutionary time challenges an eventual physical theory of everything

scientific article (publication date: March 2012)

Towards a Holistic Approach to Easter Island’s Prehistory

Updated site compilation of the Latin American Pollen Database

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Use of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) tools to set priorities and optimize strategies in biodiversity conservation

Vegetación y paisaje alrededor del lago de Montcortès (Prepirineos catalanes) como instrumento para el estudio paleoecológico de los sedimentos lacustres

scientific article published in 2013

Vegetation and environmental constancy in the Neotropical Guayana Highlands during the last 6000 years?

article published in 2005

Vegetation and landscape dynamics under natural and anthropogenic forcing on the Azores Islands: A 700-year pollen record from the São Miguel Island

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Vegetation changes and human settlement of Easter Island during the last millennia: a multiproxy study of the Lake Raraku sediments

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Vegetation changes in the Neotropical Gran Sabana (Venezuela) around the Younger Dryas chron

scholarly article

Vegetation changes in the southern Pyrenean flank during the last millennium in relation to climate and human activities: the Montcortès lacustrine record

scholarly article

Vegetation dynamics at Raraku Lake catchment (Easter Island) during the past 34,000 years

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What If the ‘Anthropocene’ Is Not Formalized as a New Geological Series/Epoch?

What if the ‘Anthropocene’ is not Formalised as a New Geological Series/Epoch?

What if the ‘Anthropocene’ is not Formalised as a New Geological Series/Epoch?

What if the ‘Anthropocene’ is not Formalised as a New Geological Series/Epoch?

What is long-term in ecology?

scientific article published on November 4, 2010

Who needs a greener revolution?

scientific article