Anticipation, Discovery and Serendipity in Quaternary Paleoecology: Personal Experiences from the Iberian Pyrenees
Rull, Valentí (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	This essay is a personal insight based on my own experience in the Iberian Pyrenees, which addresses three situations common in paleoecological research, such as the verification of previously devised hypotheses (anticipation), the finding on unknown events in unstudied sites (discovery) and the finding of unexpected outputs in already known areas (serendipity). The account is concentrated on the value of the coring sites by themselves as generators of paleoecological knowledge, rather than on the actual findings, which are presented and discussed in the corresponding data papers. The main aim is to show that there is still much room for new findings, even in areas that have been surveyed for a long time and are supposed to be well known, from a paleoecological perspective. Finally, some general lessons are derived and conceptualized.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Pyrenees ; Paleoecology ; Hypothesis testing ; Discovery ; Serendipity ; Quaternary ; Late Glacial ; Holocene ; Last millennia
Published in:	Quaternary, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (July 2023) , art. 42, ISSN 2571-550X

DOI: 10.3390/quat6030042

9 p, 1.9 MB

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