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dc.contributor.authorNascimento Reyes, Lea de 
dc.contributor.authorNogué, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorCriado Hernández, Constantino 
dc.contributor.authorRavazzi, Cesare
dc.contributor.authorWhittaker, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorWillis, Kathy J.
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Palacios, José María 
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-18T19:37:21Z
dc.date.available2019-12-18T19:37:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0959-6836
dc.identifier.urihttp://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/17695
dc.description.abstractWe provide the first fossil pollen and charcoal analysis from the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The pollen record obtained from Laguna de Valleseco (870 m a.s.l.) spans the late Holocene (c. 4500–1500 cal. yr BP) and thereby captures the impact of human colonization. During the earliest period, pollen composition resembled contemporary thermophilous communities, with palms (Phoenix canariensis) and junipers (Juniperus cf. turbinata) being the dominant trees, suggesting that these elements were more widespread in the past. Vegetation in Valleseco began to change at around 2300 cal. yr BP, 400 years before the earliest archaeological evidence of human presence in the island (c. 1900 cal. yr BP). Our data show an increased frequency of fires at that time, coinciding with the decline of palms and the increase of grasses, indicating that humans were present and were transforming vegetation, thus showing that the demise of Gran Canaria’s forest began at an early point in the prehistoric occupation of the island. In the following centuries, there were no signs of forest recovery. Pollen from cultivated cereals became significant, implying the introduction of agriculture in the site, by 1800 cal. yr BP. The next shift in vegetation (c. 1600 cal. yr BP) involved the decrease of grasses in favour of shrubs and trees like Morella faya, suggesting that agriculture was abandoned at the site.es_ES
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Holocene;
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.titleReconstructing Holocene vegetation on the island of Gran Canaria before and after human colonizationes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0959683615596836
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccesses_ES
dc.subject.keywordCanary Islandses_ES
dc.subject.keywordfire historyes_ES
dc.subject.keywordhuman impactes_ES
dc.subject.keywordpalaeoecologyes_ES
dc.subject.keywordpollen analysises_ES
dc.subject.keywordthermophilous vegetationes_ES
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersiones_ES


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