The exact timing of the first settlement of Rapa Nui is still subject of debate. Some authors argue for a settlement around 800 to 1000AD (Steadman et al. 1994; Martinsson-Wallin and Crockford 2002; Mieth and Bork 2010). Other authors advocate the scenario of initial settlement around 1150...
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been considered an example of how societies can cause their own destruction through the overexploitation of natural resources... Rull, ValentiCanellas-Bolta, NuriaMargalef, OlgaSaez, AlbertoPla-Rabes, SergiGiralt, Santiago - 《Quaternary Science Reviews the International...
The history of overexploitation and ecological disasters that are happening on Rapa Nui is an important indication of what could happen on other islands in Chile. Show more Conservation and governance challenges for small islands The examples shown here indicate that at the global scale, and even ...
Lagarde F et al (2016) Microplastic interactions with freshwater microalgae: hetero-aggregation and changes in plastic density appear strongly dependent on polymer type. Environ Pollut 215:331–339 CAS Google Scholar Lamba P, Kaur DP, Raj S, Sorout J (2022) Recycling/reuse of plastic waste as...
My research on Rapanui (Easter Island), Polynesia, provides an assessment of new evidence related to the evolving relationships between the Rapanui people and their island environment. Major research goals included formulating an environmental history, an ecohistory that documents ecological changes; ...
The Rano Aroi mire on Easter Island (also known as Rapa Nui; 27°09′S, 109°27′W, 430 m above sea level) provides a unique non-marine record in the central South Pacific Ocean for reconstructing Late Pleistocene environmental changes. The results of amultiproxy study on twocores fromthe...
We explore the potential influence of the most important high-energy events in the Pacific on Polynesian societal changes, with a special focus on Easter Island. For example, the extreme Samalas eruption in AD 1257 may have been an indirect driver of the sudden population decline, land ...
This paper reviews the existing hypotheses concerning the cultural shift from the Ancient Cult (AC) to the Birdman Cult (BC) that occurred on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) during the last millennium and introduces a holistic new hypothesis called CLAFS (Climate-Landscape-Anthropogenic Feedbacks and ...
(Gamito et al.2003; Selleslagh and Amara2015; Müller2021). Feeding strategy and prey preferences undergo ontogenetic changes (Galarowicz et al.2006; Sánchez-Hernández et al.2019) and understanding of the feeding ecology of a life stage or species is considered of major importance to ...
Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental UncertaintyThe effectiveness of governance depends on the knowledge upon which decisions are based. Knowledge veracity is particularly significant when future conditions are uncertain. In the context of global......