Mire initiation, climatic change and agricultural expansion over the course of the Late-Holocene in the Massif Central mountain range (France): Causal links and implications for mire conservation

Cubizolle, Hervé; Fassion, Franck; Argant, Jacqueline; Latour-Argant, Catherine; Galet, Philippe; Oberlin, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.001

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“…Amino acid racemization dating is applicable to carbonate shells up to ∼1 Ma in cool waters and can yield decadal resolution within the Holocene; U-Th dating is applicable to corals, speleothems, and bones up to ∼500 ka and provides decadal resolution within the last few thousand years; and optically stimulated luminescence is applicable to mineral grains deposited in terrestrial settings up to several hundred thousand years with resolution ±5-10% (66,(68)(69)(70). Naturally occurring 210 Pb, which rains out rapidly from the atmosphere, remains a powerful method with approximately decadal resolution for sediments deposited within the past ∼150 y. Bomb-generated 137 Cs is becoming more difficult to detect owing to radioactive decay, but longer lived plutonium isotopes and their daughters produced at the same time can take its place as a global geochemical marker.…”

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Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

Kidwell

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather than stationary means. Paleobiological data from the youngest sedimentary record, including death assemblages actively accumulating on modern land surfaces and seabeds, provide unique information on the status of present-day species, communities, and biomes over the last few decades to millennia and on their responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Key advances have established the accuracy and resolving power of paleobiological information derived from naturally preserved remains and of proxy evidence for environmental conditions and sample age so that fossil data can both implicate and exonerate human stressors as the drivers of biotic change and permit the effects of multiple stressors to be disentangled. Legacy effects from Industrial and even pre-Industrial anthropogenic extirpations, introductions, (de)nutrification, and habitat conversion commonly emerge as the primary factors underlying the present-day status of populations and communities; within the last 2 million years, climate change has rarely been sufficient to drive major extinction pulses absent other human pressures, which are now manifold. Young fossil records also provide rigorous access to the baseline composition and dynamics of modern-day biota under pre-Industrial conditions, where insights include the millennial-scale persistence of community structures, the dominant role of physical environmental conditions rather than biotic interactions in determining community composition and disassembly, and the existence of naturally alternating states.biodiversity | ecology | conservation | paleobiology | paleoecology

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Section: Proxy Evidence Of (Paleo)environmentalmentioning

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Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

Kidwell

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…1230 BC and 180 AD due to sediment mixing, thus not covering the minor shift to wetter and cooler conditions visible from 1150–1000 BC in the pollen-based curves. Cubizolle et al[ 104 ] offer an additional insight on local landscape development through an SCPD-based record of peat formation events for the Eastern Massif Central ( Fig 12E ). Cubizolle et al [ 104 ] suggest that anthropic land use was a driving mechanism behind peat initiation, partly basing their hypothesis on climatic reconstructions external to the study area (i.e.…”

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Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns

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The reconstruction of past demographic patterns is a fundamental step towards a better understanding of human-environment relations, especially in terms of quantifiable anthropic impact and population susceptibility to environmental changes. The recently developed Summed Calibrated Probability Distributions (SCPD) approach, based on large collections of archaeological radiocarbon dates, provides a new tool to obtain continuous prehistoric population curves suitable for comparison with palaeoenvironmental time series. Despite a wide application in Mesolithic and Neolithic contexts worldwide, the use of the SCPD method remains rare for post-Neolithic societies. Our aim is to address this visible gap and apply the SCPD approach to South European archeological contexts between the Bronze Age and the transition into the Iron Age (1800–800 cal. BC), then evaluating these results against local archeological narratives and palaeoecological data. We first test the SCPD method at a supra regional scale, ranging from the Ebro to the Danube rivers, and subsequently in five selected regions within this area. We then compare the regional population curves to climate data reconstructed from local palynological records. Our results highlight the contrast between a stable supra regional demographic trend and more dynamic regional patterns. We do not observe any convincing long-term correlations between population and climate, but localized episodes of demographic stagnation or decline are present in conjunction with climatic shifts or extremes. Nevertheless, climate change as a triggering factor should be considered with caution, especially in peripheral areas where the archaeological data is faint, or where local evidence points to contemporaneous, ongoing landscape overexploitation.

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“…On the other hand, abundant empirical evidence from paleoenvironmental studies in minerotrophic bogs shows acceptable concentrations of highly preserved frustules in high-latitude minerotrophic bogs in America (e.g., [51,53,56,59,74,75]), Asia (e.g., [76][77][78]), and Europe (e.g., [63,[79][80][81]), but also in Southern Europe, in several peatlands of the Aquitania Basin area [82], French Massif Central (France) [60,61,83,84], and Central Sredna Gora Mountains (Bulgaria) [85][86][87] (Table 1 and Figure 1). Exceptionally, peatlands at even lower latitudes in the Badda peak, of more than 4000 m altitude, of the high Ethiopian mountain have diatoms with a good state of conservation as to be used in paleoenvironmental studies [88].…”

Section: Diatom Preservation In Peatmentioning

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Diatoms in Paleoenvironmental Studies of Peatlands

Carballeira

Pontevedra-Pombal

2020

Quaternary

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The great diversity of diatoms in aquatic ecosystems and their close relationship with water chemistry make them one of the most informative and widely used biological proxies in paleoenvironmental studies of wetlands, except for peatland ecosystems. Currently, significant controversy still exists over the preservation of diatoms in peat. However, considerable evidence indicates that diatoms remain in good condition in minerotrophic peatlands, and they have been successfully used in paleoenvironmental studies in high-latitude regions and especially in Southern Europe.

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Mire initiation, climatic change and agricultural expansion over the course of the Late-Holocene in the Massif Central mountain range (France): Causal links and implications for mire conservation

Cited by 26 publications

References 46 publications

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns

Diatoms in Paleoenvironmental Studies of Peatlands

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