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| == Time Machine: Ice Age in the Andes. Open Day, Science Park, October 7th 2017 ==
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| This is a test or prototype of my thesis project: with a video installation of two screens, we showed in the first screen a 3D animation of the shifting
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| elevational distributions of the páramos, Andean forests, and lowlands forests. During cold
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| conditions, the low elevational position of the páramos cause the many isolated páramo islands to
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| fuse, while during warmer conditions the páramos form isolated archipelagos.
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| The biogeographic history of the páramos has been reconstructed for the last million years and exposes the driver of the
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| evolutionary powerhouse, a mechanism described as the ‘flickering connectivity system’ (Flantua & Hooghiemstra, 2018).
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| The second screen showed photography of Colombian páramos and several
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| current plants species.
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| As part of the installation, also three different generation of microscopes
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| were used to explain how this theory takes form after identifying pollen from deep fossil pollen
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| More info here:
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| https://ecologyofthepast.info/2017/10/27/uva-open-day-3d-visualization-of-the-ice-ages-in-the-andes/
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKBG-K__fFc
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