Pollen stratigraphy of two Holocene peat sites in the Ligurian Apennines, northern Italy

A new Late-glacial and Holocene record of vegetation and fire history from Lago del Greppo, northern Apennines, Italy

“…A clearer sign of opening at Agoraie, Casanova, Lago Pratignano and Lago del Greppo is evident only during the Roman period (Cruise 1990b;Watson 1996). Typical crops of the Roman period such as Olea, Castanea and Juglans (Gobet et al 2000;Branch 2004) are uncommon in the analyzed sequences, the only sites consistently recording their presence in the area are Lago del Greppo, Pavullo nel Frignano and Bargone (Cruise 1990a;Vescovi 2007).…”

“…The influence of climatic change, human impact including fire, a combination of both, or other factors have been invoked to explain the Holocene behaviour of these two taxa (Cruise 1990b;Lowe et al 1994a, b). Watson (1996) showed that in seven of 16 sites that she examined, for example Casanova and Prato Mollo (Cruise 1990a), organic sedimentation started during the Holocene (ca.…”

Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history in the Insubrian Southern Alps—New indications from a small-scale site

“…In fact these early findings could not be confirmed by subsequent re-analyses at Lago di Origlio and nearby Lago di Muzzano . However, several investigations emphasise that C. sativa most likely survived the last Ice Age in Italy and probably even at sheltered sites in northern Italy (Huntley and Birks 1983;Cruise 1990;Emmert-Straubinger 1991;Kelly and Huntley 1991;Paganelli and Miola 1991;Birks and Line 1993;Kaltenrieder et al 2004). Some authors therefore consider the species as a natural component of forests in northern Italy and neighbouring areas (Mayer 1984;Paganelli 1996).…”

Soil formation in kettle holes from high altitudes in central Apennines, Italy

“…Thus, for the Italian Alps the presence of kettle holes has been recently highlighted in few technical reports (e.g. Ziliani et al, 2008), while for the Apennines Cruise (1990) reported on the presence of these depressions only for a site of the northern sector. Nonetheless, kettle holes are particularly abundant in the central Apennines, as they dot the former glacial valleys of many massifs such as Gran Sasso, Majella, Terminillo, Velino, Sibillini.…”