Paleoecological Research on Easter Island —— Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts

----- 复活节古生态学研究岛屿：关于定居、气候变化、森林砍伐和文化变迁

ISBN: 9780128227275 出版年：2020 页码：300 Rull, Valento Elsevier Science_RM

Paleocological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts examines the area 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 in a varied range of disciplines and subdisciplines, including ecology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, biogeography, sedimentology, and paleontology. Users will find synthesized information on Easter Island from the last millennia that will help pave the way towards an integrated interdisciplinary vision of the island environmental-ecological-cultural system as a complex functional unit. Human and environmental deterministic views are avoided and the Easter Island enigmas are analyzed under a holistic perspective of continuous feedbacks and synergies among the different components of the system. Provides the first synthesis of the available paleoecological knowledge on Easter IslandFurnishes clues on how to integrate paleoecological information with evidence from other disciplinesAddresses the complexity of the environmental-ecological-cultural system by analyzing the interactions (feedbacks and synergies) among its components