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T1 Los bosques del pasado en las Islas Canarias: un viaje de 10.000 años
A1 Nascimento Reyes, Lea de
A1 Nogué, Sandra
A1 Criado Hernández, Constantino
A1 Whittaker, Robert J.
A1 Willis, Kathy J.
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
K1 paleoecología
K1 Islas Canarias
K1 bosques
AB The Canary Islands provide an exceptional scenario to study vegetationchanges through time, since they are diverse in geographical,geological, biological and historical aspects. Surprisingly, littleattention has been paid to this region to date. Suitable sites for fossilpreservation have been found in three islands of the Canary Islands:Tenerife, La Gomera and Gran Canaria, and sedimentarysequences, spanning part of the Holocene, were recently studiedby means of fossil pollen and charcoal analyses to reconstruct vegetationand fire history. Results obtained so far show that Canarianvegetation has been subject to changes in the past, mostlydriven by climate dynamics and human activities. La Gomera sequencewas the oldest, allowing to track shifts in forest compositionrelated to past climate change. In contrast, Tenerife and GranCanaria underwent the most significant changes in vegetationafter human settlement, involving the increase of fires, the declineand disappearance of species, the opening of the forest, the spreadof grasses and shrubs, and the introduction of cultivated plants.Similar patterns of vegetation change have been found on islandsworldwide, where palaeoecological information is increasinglyshowing its potential in conservation ecology and management.
PB Ayuntamiento de La Orotava, Centro de Educación Ambiental Municipal
SN 1885-5172
YR 2016
FD 2016
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 20-abr-2024