Discrimination of Scots pine forests in the Iberian Central System (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica, Pinaceae) by means of pollen analysis. Phytosociological considerations

López‐Sáez, José Antonio; Sánchez‐Mata, Daniel; Alba‐Sánchez, Francisca; Abel-Schaad, Daniel; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Pérez‐Díaz, Sebastián

doi:10.5209/rev_laza.2013.v34.n1.43599

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“…While in Tiemblo this new fire episode hardly influenced the chestnut forest (FRI = 832 years), in Serranillos, the incidence of fires and a high pastoral pressure (maximum values of coprophilous fungi; Figure ) led to the disappearance of Scots pine forests at 500 cal. year bp , whose percentages below 30% indicate a regional rather than a local origin (López‐Sáez et al, ). These data seem to suggest that the increase of human‐mediated fires and livestock grazing in Serranillos was connected to the decline of Scots pine in the oromediterranean bioclimatic belt (López‐Sáez et al, ).…”

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Paleofire Dynamics in Central Spain during the Late Holocene: The Role of Climatic and Anthropogenic Forcing

López‐Sáez¹,

Vargas

Fernández

et al. 2017

Land Degrad Dev

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The use of fire and, consequently, its severity and incidence on the environment have grown steadily during the last millennia throughout the Mediterranean. This issue can be assessed in several mountain ranges of central Iberia where changes in the management policy on anthropic activities and exploitation of high‐mountain environments have promoted a remarkable increase on fire frequency. Our research focuses on fire dynamics throughout the last 3,000 years from three peat bog charcoal records of the Gredos range (central Iberia). Our aim is to reconstruct past fire regimes according to forest vegetation typology (Castanea sativa, Pinus pinaster, and Pinus sylvestris). Charcoal influx shows low values between 3,140 and 1,800 cal. year bp when forests were relatively dense in both high and mid‐mountain areas. Fire appeared synchronous between 1,800 and 1,700 cal. year bp for Lanzahíta and Serranillos and around 1,400–1,240 cal. year bp for the three sites, suggesting anthropogenic fire control between the Late Roman and Visigothic periods that can be related to the cultivation of olive trees in the valleys and a greater human impact in high‐mountain areas. By contrast, during the Muslim period (1,240–850 cal. year bp), fire dynamics becomes asynchronous. Later, fires turn again coeval in the Gredos range during the Christian period (850–500 cal. year bp) and can be also correlated with drought phases during the Late Medieval Warm Episode. In short, our study demonstrates that fire activity has been enormously variable during the late Holocene in response to both short‐term and long‐term regional and global climate, vegetation dynamics, and land use changes. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Paleofire Dynamics in Central Spain during the Late Holocene: The Role of Climatic and Anthropogenic Forcing

López‐Sáez¹,

Vargas

Fernández

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“…The large percentage of P. sylvestris/P. nigra is attributed to long‐range (“regional”) transport of pollen from highland areas (López‐Sáez et al, ). Of the abundant shrubbery (9–15%), the predominant taxa are Cytisus / Genista , Ephedra fragilis , Pistacia lentiscus, and Rhamnus .…”

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Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

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Agrarian landscapes are among the least understood features of first millennium B.C. societies in the western Mediterranean. Studies of such landscapes in the context of the Iberian Iron Age have been based essentially on the archeological record in places used for purposes other than farming, particularly settlements and areas reserved for burials and rituals, or on the identification of the possible use of fertilizers. Here we present a multiproxy analysis of an agrarian landscape based on geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental studies in a mountainous region in southeastern Iberia. The findings confirmed the existence of farmland cultivated as early as the first millennium B.C. in the high Jutia Valley in the Spanish province of Albacete. These results suggest that coordinated analyses can be highly useful for identifying enduring agricultural practices, while contributing to a fuller understanding of western Mediterranean agrarian landscapes and their millenarian resilience, attributable to the coevolution of human communities and the environment.

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“…According to studies of modern pollen rain in some well‐developed pine forests, composed mainly of Pinus sylvestris , we infer the presence of large pine forests only when the values reach 60% (López‐Sáez et al . ). Accordingly, we suggest at this time the presence of regional pine forests, or perhaps the presence of scattered trees near the site, but in any case mature forests.…”

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8000 years of vegetation history in the northern Iberian Peninsula inferred from the palaeoenvironmental study of the Zalama ombrotrophic bog (Basque‐Cantabrian Mountains, Spain)

Pérez-Díaz

López‐Sáez

Pontevedra-Pombal

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This paper focuses on pollen, spores, non‐pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) and certain geochemical elements from the ombrotrophic blanket bog of Zalama (Basque‐Cantabrian Mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula), with the support of a robust chronology based on 17 AMS 14C dates. The main results related to the last 8000 years show that, during the early middle Holocene, pines and deciduous forests were the most extensive tree formations. At the beginning of the succession, pines reach 44%, showing regional presence, whereas after 7600 cal. a BP, deciduous forests were particularly abundant. From c. 6500 cal. a BP the pollen diagram constructed from our samples shows the first anthropogenic evidence, linked with the new economic practices related to the Neolithic of the Basque‐Cantabrian Mountains. From 3300 cal. a BP the expansion of Fagus sylvatica is particularly clear, and has since then become one of the dominant forest species in this region. We also discuss the Holocene evolution of other noteworthy plant communities in southwestern Europe, such as Taxus baccata, Juglans and shrublands.

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Discrimination of Scots pine forests in the Iberian Central System (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica, Pinaceae) by means of pollen analysis. Phytosociological considerations

Cited by 57 publications

References 54 publications

Paleofire Dynamics in Central Spain during the Late Holocene: The Role of Climatic and Anthropogenic Forcing

Paleofire Dynamics in Central Spain during the Late Holocene: The Role of Climatic and Anthropogenic Forcing

Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

8000 years of vegetation history in the northern Iberian Peninsula inferred from the palaeoenvironmental study of the Zalama ombrotrophic bog (Basque‐Cantabrian Mountains, Spain)

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