A recent study challenges the idea that present-day Pyrenean landscapes are the result of large-scale anthropogenic deforestation and land degradation that occurred during the Middle Ages. High-resolution (decadal) pollen analysis of sediments from two lakes situated in the lowest (Montcortès)…
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Medieval forest dynamics in the Pyrenees
Tagged with: conifers, fire, Forests, high-resolution, Iberian Peninsula, Landscape anthropization, last millennium, Middle Ages, palynology, pines, Pyrenees
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Posted in My publications
Montcortès: a unique Mediterranean paleoecological record of the last 3000 years
The Pyrenean Lake Montcortès sediments hold the longest continuous and absolutely varve-dated record of the Mediterranean region, encompassing the last three millennia, from the Late Bronze Age to the present. The high-resolution paleoecological reconstruction of the Montcortès sequence using pollen…
Tagged with: anthropization, Bronze Age, climate change, Contemporary Times, cultivation, deforestation, ecology, fire, grazing, hemp Cannabis, human disturbance, Iron Age, lad use, Last millenia, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Montcortès, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, retting, Roman Empire, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in My publications, Research papers
High-mountain forest resilience
Some high-elevation Pyrenean forests remained virtually pristine during the last 4000 years Palynological analysis of the last ca. 4300 cal yr BP using a sediment core taken from high mountain (ca. 1900 m elevation) Lake Sant Maurici sediments (southern-central Pyrenees)…
Tagged with: Catalonia, Conifer forests, Europe, Forests, High mountains, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, lakes, Late Holocene, National Parks, palynology, PNAESM, pollen analysis, Pyrenees, Resilience, sediments
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Spatiotemporal gradients in the anthropization of Pyrenean landscapes
Pyrenean landscapes were anthropized gradually, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, following a general elevational pattern, from lowlands to highlands. Human settlement, as derived from archaeological evidence, may occur much earlier than irreversible anhtropogenic transformation of landscape, as…
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, human disturbance, Landscape anthropization, Late Holocene, natural resources, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Pyrenees, Quaternary, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in My publications, Research papers
Video on the paleoecological study of a Pyrenean lake with annually-laminated sediments covering the last millennia
Tagged with: anthropocene, biodiversity, Catalonia, climate change, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, history, human disturbance, Limnology, Montcortès, natural resources, paleoecology, paleolimnology, palynology, pollen, popular science, Pyrenees, Quaternary, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Job offer in Paleoecology
The Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA), of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is looking for candidates for Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowships to develop research projects in paleoecology using pollen analysis. Candidates should have experience in Quaternary…
Tagged with: archaeology, Azores Islands, Chile, climate change, collapse, conservation, CSIC, cultural change, Easter Island, ecology, fire, global change, Holocene, individual fellowship, job, Last Glacial, Last Glacial Maximum, LGM, LIA, Litttle Ice Age, Marie Curie, MCA, Medieval Climatic Anomaly, offer, palynology, pollen, position, Pyrenees, YD, Younger Dryas
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