A new book summarizes the origin, evolution, diversification and biogeography of mangroves in the Caribbean region, a Neotropical hotspot

Mangroves are intertidal forests that play a crucial role in safeguarding and sustaining the diversity and ecological dynamics of tropical and subtropical coastal ecosystems. Additionally, they offer a wide array of ecological and cultural services to human societies. By sequestering carbon in their organic-rich sediments, mangroves stand out as the foremost blue-carbon ecosystems, contributing significantly […]

A new book provides the most complete and detailed (decadal resolution) paleoecological history of the last three millennia available for the Mediterranean region

The annually-laminated (varved) sediments of Pyrenean Lake Montcortès (Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia, Spain) contain the most complete, continuous, and well-dated high-resolution (decadal, on average) record of vegetation and landscape dynamics over the last 3000 years in the Mediterranean region. The Montcortès record was discovered by IBB researcher Valentí Rull (VR) twenty years ago. Since then, this […]