Paleoecological Research on Easter Island

• Author : Valenti Rull
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 07 August 2020

Paleocological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts examines the area’s climatic and ecological history, a topic not usually addressed in other literature. The book provides a thorough and synthetic account of all paleoecological works developed to date, including the latest discoveries. Finally, it attempts to match paleoecological evidence with the results of other disciplines creating a multidisciplinary framework. This approach to the field is ideal for researchers, university professors and graduate students

• Author : Valentí Rull,Santiago Giralt
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 04 September 2018

After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island's ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. This eBook aims to provide a synthetic view of the topic using evidence from different research fields such as paleoecology, archaeology, history and molecular phylogenetics. A holistic approach is provided to combine the results of these research fields into a comprehensive framework able to account for most of the available multidisciplinary evidence. This

• Author : John Loret,John T. Tanacredi
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 December 2012

Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown. Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World's Environmental Problems in Microcosm presents the research results from three years of interdisciplinary expeditions to Easter Island. The primary objectives were to investigate the effects of human population growth on the ecology

• Author : Valentí Rull,Christopher M. Stevenson
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 12 April 2022

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in Polynesian language) prehistory – i.e., the time from the initial settlement to European contact – from a multidisciplinary and unbiased perspective. The main topics include: (i) the timing of settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main traits of the prehistoric Rapanui culture and its changes; (iii) the total deforestation of the island, its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the original and the

• Author : James O. Luken,John W. Thieret
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 December 2012

Biological invasion of native plant communities is a high-priority problem in the field of environmental management. Resource managers, biologists, and all those involved in plant communities must consider ecological interactions when assessing both the effects of plant invasion and the long-term effects of management. Sections of the book cover human perceptions of invading plants, assessment of ecological interactions, direct management, and regulation and advocacy. It also includes an appendix with descriptive data for many of the worst weeds.

• Author : Bernard A. Marcus
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 05 December 2021

The first text in a series of single topic ecology books, Tropic Forests is an ideal text or supplement for introductory biology, ecology, and environmental science courses. It provides students with an accurate, easy to read, and easy to understand account of this important environmental topic that is often overlooked or glossed over in general texts. It's narrative style and clear illustrations and diagrams engage students, and paint a clear picture of the important concepts presented throughout the text.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Release : 05 December 2021

• Author : Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 05 December 2021

"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Christopher Blazina,Güler Boyraz,David Shen-Miller
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 22 June 2011

There have been dramatic increases in the financial, emotional, and psychological investment in pets over the past four decades. The increasing importance of animal companions in people's lives has resulted in growing emphasis on the human-animal bond within academic literature. This book introduces practicing and emerging professionals to vital subject matter concerning this growing specialty area by providing an essential framework and information through which to consider the unique contextual backdrop of the human-animal bond. Such contexts include a wide

• Author : Marc Oxenham,Hallie Buckley
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 19 November 2015

In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific

• Author : Juan A. Blanco,Yueh-Hsin Lo,Shovonlal Roy
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 17 April 2015

The term biodiversity has become a mainstream concept that can be found in any newspaper at any given time. Concerns on biodiversity protection are usually linked to species protection and extinction risks for iconic species, such as whales, pandas and so on. However, conserving biodiversity has much deeper implications than preserving a few (although important) species. Biodiversity in ecosystems is tightly linked to ecosystem functions such as biomass production, organic matter decomposition, ecosystem resilience, and others. Many of these ecological

• Author : Gregory P. Dietl,Karl W. Flessa
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 17 November 2017

In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduced starting in the 1990s in an effort informed by the fossil record—condor skeletal remains had been found in the area’s late-Pleistocene cave deposits. The potential benefits of applying such data to conservation initiatives are unquestionably great, yet integrating the

• Author : Joel W. Iledgpeth and Harry S. Ladd
• Publisher : Geological Society of America
• Release : 05 December 2021

• Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 24 May 2000

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, the home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Recent archaeological excavations, combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography, have begun to reveal much new information about the long-term history of

• Author : Michael L. Rosenzweig
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 24 April 2003

As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries? In this book, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. Instead it suggests that, to be successful, conservation must discover how we can blend a rich natural world into the world of economic activity.