Peer reviewed publications

(...just write me an email to gil.romera[at]gmail.com to get any of these papers)

1.      J.S. Carrión, G.Gil, E.Rodríguez, N.Fuentes, M.García-Antón, A. Arribas. 2005. Palynology of badger coprolitos from Central Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 226, 259– 271.

2.      M. García Antón, G. Gil Romera, J.L Pagés, A. Alonso Millán . 2006. The Holocene pollen record in the Villaviciosa estuary (Asturias, North of Spain) in relation to changes in sea level. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 237, 280-292.

3.      G. Gil Romera, L. Scott, E. Marais, G. Brook. 2006 Middle to late Holocene moisture changes in the desert of northwest Namibia derived from fossil hyrax dung pollen. The Holocene.16, 1073-1084.

4.      J.S. Carrión, L. Scott, A. Arribas, G.Gil-Romera, E. Montoya. 2007. Pleistocene landscapes in Central Iberia inferred from pollen analysis of hyena coprolites. Journal of Quaternary Science. 22, 191-202.

5.      Santiago Fernández, José S. Carrión, Noemí Fuentes, Penélope González-Sampériz, Encarna Montoya, Graciela Gil, Gerardo Vega-Toscano, José A. Riquelme. 2007 Palynology of Carihuela cave, Southern Spain: completing the record. GeoBios , 40. 75-90.

6.      G Gil Romera, L. Scott, E. Marais, G. Brook. 2007. Late Holocene Environmental Change In The North-Western Namib Desert Margin: New Fossil Pollen Evidence From Hyrax Middens. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249, 1-17.

7.      Marais E., Scott L., Gil Romera G., Carrión J.S., 2007. Pollen in Arnhem Cave, Namibia, and the potential of fossil bat-dung in palynology. Cimbebasia. 20, (In press)

8.      Gil-Romera, G., Carrión, J. S., McClure, S., Schmich, S., Finlayson, C. Holocene vegetation dynamics in Mediterranean Iberia: historical contingency and climate-human interactions. Journal of Archaeological Science (Accepted)

9.    Gil Romera, G., García Antón, M., Calleja Alarcón, J.A. 2008. The Holocene palaeoecological sequence of Serranía de las Villuercas in south-western Spain. Vegetation history and archaeobotany.  DOI 10.1007/s00334-008-0146-x

Book chapters

10.      Graciela Gil Romera, Louis Scott. 2006. Reconstrucción de paleoambientes en zonas áridas: investigaciones en el Desierto del Namib En: Carrión, J.S., Fernández, S., Fuentes, N. (Editores) Paleoambientes y Cambio Climático Quaderna. Fundación Séneca, Agencia Regional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Murcia. Download PDF (202 Kb)

11.      García Antón, M., Gil Romera, G., Carrión, J.S. 2007. Historia de la vegetación. In: Rodríguez Iglesias, F. Enciclopedia de Naturaleza de Andalucia, 24. 344-378. Publicaciones Comunitarias, Sevilla.


Contribution to internacional conferences

12.     Gil-Romera, G. and García-Antón, M. Palynological analysis of a peat-bog sited in the sierra de las Villuercas (Cáceres, Western Spain). XI International Palynological Conference. Granada, July 2004. Download PDF (870 Kb)

13.     Gil Romera, G., Scott, L., Marais, E. and G Brook. From the Cederberg to Kaokoland: progress with fossil pollen studies of hyrax dung deposits in south-western Africa. XVI International Conference of Southern Africa Society for Quaternary (SASQUA). Bloemfontein, South Africa, April 2005.

14.     Graciela Gil Romera, Louis Scott, Eugène Marais and George Brook.Holocene climate variations in arid Namibia derived from pollen analysis of fossil dung deposits. Holivar Open Science Meeting. London, UK, June 2006. Download PDF (797 Kb)

15.      M. García Antón, G. Gil Romera, J.L. Pagés A. Alonso Millán. The Holocene pollen record Asturias, Northern Spain in the Villaviciosa Estuary. VII European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference. Prague, Chezc Republic, September 2006. Download PDF (150 Kb)

16.      Chase, B. M., Gil-Romera, G., Marais, E., Scott, L., Sealy, J., Meadows, M. E. and Thomas, D. S. G. Developments in the use of rock hyrax middens as southern African palaeoenvironmental archives. SASQUA 2007 XVII Conference. Durban, South Africa, April, 2007.

17.      Gil-Romera, G., Carrión García, J.S., Fuentes N., Fernández, S., Burjachs, F. Holocene fire regime in Southern Spain: the role of fire as a landscape modeller in Mediterranean Iberia. European Pollen Database Open Science Meeting. Aix-en-Provence, France, May 2007. Download PDF (578 Kb)

18.      J.S. Carrión, C Finlayson, N Fuentes, G. Finlayson, S. Fernández-Jiménez, E. Allué, J.A. López-Sáez, P. López-García, G. Gil-Romera, P. González-Sampériz. Singularity of the Iberian southern coastal shelf as ecological scenario for survival of human populations. XVII INQUA Conference. Cairns, Australia, July 2007. Download PDF (1,05 Mbs)

19.     Gil-Romera, G. , J.S. Carrión , N. Fuentes, L.. Sánchez Quirante, P. González-Sampériz, J.C. Finlayson, S Fernández. Holocene environmental change in Southern Spain. A model system to study human agency on montane vegetation. XVII INQUA Conference. Cairns, Australia, July 2007.

20.     Gil-Romera, G., L. Scott, E. Marais, G.A. Brook, J.S. Carrión. Holocene environmental change in the Namib Desert margin: progress in palynology from hyrax middens. XVII INQUA Conference. Cairns, Australia, July 2007.