Late Holocene Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) woodlands in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): Investigation of their distribution and the role of human management based on anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalynological data

Abstract

Late Holocene Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) woodlands in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): investigation of their distribution and the role of human management based on anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalynological data.

Long transient response of vegetation dynamics after four millennia of anthropogenic impacts in an island ecosystem

“…For instance, there was a predominant spatial pattern of aggregation in small patches showing facilitation rather than competition in plant communities, which would occur after a perturbation, far from density dependence and the carrying capacity of the system. Sparse data from 1921 and 1956 confirmed that, before the end of intense harvesting, vegetation showed an ecological state of a perturbed system, lacking forested patches and with 3.5-fold of lower plant diversity (see also Picornell-Gelabert et al, 2021). Vegetation cover increased more in flat than in step areas likely because the former were more impacted by anthropogenic activities and hold higher rat densities (Mayol et al, 2012).…”

“…Harvesting of forests and grazing by free‐ranging domestic herbivores were synergetic with the abovementioned influence of climate change and determined a maquia‐type landscape, which shaped a new ecological state that has since then framed the dynamics of plant communities until recently. A new transition to a different state of vegetation dynamics is expected since the cessation of intense harvesting of natural resources, especially in small islands of the Balearic archipelago around the mid‐1970s (Carrión et al, 2010 ; Picornell‐Gelabert et al, 2021 ). Rural abandonment and the arrival of conservation laws a few years later allowed managers to protect these small ecosystems from new anthropogenic impacts, mainly habitat loss by touristic housing development.…”

Taming Trees, Shaping Forests, and Managing Woodlands as Resources for Understanding Past Societies. Contributions and Current Limits of Dendro-Anthracology and Anthraco-Isotopy

“…Recent advances based on a systemic approach combining quantitative tools, anthraco-typology, particular growth patterns and anthraco-isotopy, have pushed back the limits of anthracology. This systemic approach applied to different archeological contexts enables easy reading between dendroanthracological parameters (Dufraisse and Coubray, 2018;Picornell-Gelabert et al, 2021). Interpretations of treering widths have been refined and hypotheses on the tree organs used have been proposed.…”

Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean. Keywords of a research field

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