Our paper “Land-use change outweighs projected effects of changing rainfall on tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa” , has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member George Malanson! Pr. Malanson summary: Aleman et al. identified landscapes at risk in sub-Saharan Africa. A variety of data sources (satellite tree […]
I am very pleased to share this new article with José Antonio López-Sáez and colleagues: DOI:10.1002/ldr.2751 about the fire history of a mountain range in central Spain. Abstract: The use of fire and, consequently, its severity and incidence on the environment, has grown steadily during the last millennia throughout the Mediterranean. This issue can be assessed in […]
In R, excellent packages provide ways to plot pollen or more generally stratigraphic diagrams. The two main tools come from the rioja package with “strat.plot” and the analogue package with “Stratiplot”. Althought those two functions are very comprehensive (you can include a dendrogram, pollen zones, etc.), easy to use, and highly customizable; I was still […]
I am very pleased to share this article by Donna Hawthorne, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Julie Aleman et al. on a new tool and data repository the Global Modern Charcoal Dataset which is currently in development by the GPWG and colleagues working in paleofire research. The GMCD is a unique opportunity to develop paleofire research and achieve charcoal […]
Le labo félicite Andy qui a reçu le prix de vulgarisation au forum Géodiversité du département de géographie qui a eu lieu le 24 mars dernier. Jordan à quant à lui reçu le prix de la meilleure présentation en Géographie Physique et le prix de la meilleure présentation en Géographie. Par ailleurs la photographie prise par Jordan […]
Montréal, le 3 mars 2017 – S’inscrivant dans les prises de positions récentes en ce sens par d’autres organisations du milieu de la géographie, le Département de géographie de l’Université de Montréal a tenu à réitérer son esprit d’ouverture et d’inclusion. C’est lors de sa 350e Assemblée départementale tenue le 17 février dernier que l’assemblée […]
Le 16 février midi, Carla Staver qui est professeur au département d’Écologie et de Biologie Évolutive de Yale, viendra donner une présentation de sa recherche au département de Géographie de l’UdeM, venez nombreux! PDF
A new version of the R package paleofire 1.1.9 is available on CRAN (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=paleofire) and GitHub (https://github.com/oblarquez/paleofire). The release includes few bug fixes and improvements of existing functions, including more flexibility in pfAddData function and new options in kdffreq, see examples below:
Click to access to data! Data citation: Aleman J. C., Blarquez O., Staver A. C. 2016. Land-use change outweighs projected effects of changing rainfall on tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa. Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13299