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Europe's lost forests : a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years
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- Roberts, N. (author)
- Plymouth Univ, UK,Plymouth University
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- Mazier, F. (author)
- Plymouth Univ, UK,Plymouth University,University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
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- Woodbridge, J. (author)
- Plymouth Univ, UK,Plymouth University
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- Gaillard, Marie-José, 1953- (author)
- Linnaeus University,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)
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- Davis, B. A. S. (author)
- Univ Lausanne, Switzerland,University of Lausanne,Tallinn University
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- Kaplan, J. O. (author)
- Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Germany;ARVE Res SARL, Switzerland,Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,ARVE Research SARL
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- Marquer, L. (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science,Faculty of Science,Aix-Marseille University
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- Mazier, F. (author)
- Jean Jaures Univ, France
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- Nielsen, A. B. (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science,Faculty of Science
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- Sugita, S. (author)
- Tallinn Univ, Estonia
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- Trondman, Anna-Kari, 1980- (author)
- Linnaeus University,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)
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- Leydet, M. (author)
- Aix Marseille Univ, France
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- 2018-01-15
- 2018
- English.
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In: Scientific Reports. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 2045-2322. ; 8
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- 8000 years ago, prior to Neolithic agriculture, Europe was mostly a wooded continent. Since then, its forest cover has been progressively fragmented, so that today it covers less than half of Europe's land area, in many cases having been cleared to make way for fields and pasture-land. Establishing the origin of Europe's current, more open land-cover mosaic requires a long-term perspective, for which pollen analysis offers a key tool. In this study we utilise and compare three numerical approaches to transforming pollen data into past forest cover, drawing on >1000 C-14-dated site records. All reconstructions highlight the different histories of the mixed temperate and the northern boreal forests, with the former declining progressively since similar to 6000 years ago, linked to forest clearance for agriculture in later prehistory (especially in northwest Europe) and early historic times (e.g. in north central Europe). In contrast, extensive human impact on the needle-leaf forests of northern Europe only becomes detectable in the last two millennia and has left a larger area of forest in place. Forest loss has been a dominant feature of Europe's landscape ecology in the second half of the current interglacial, with consequences for carbon cycling, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Naturgeografi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Physical Geography (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap -- Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences -- Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use (hsv//eng)
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- Paleoecology
- Paleoekologi
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