Using quantitative pollen-based land-cover estimations and a spatial CA_Markov model to reconstruct the development of cultural landscape at Rõuge, South Estonia

Poska, Anneli; Sepp, Elor; Veski, Siim; Koppel, Kalev

doi:10.1007/s00334-007-0124-8

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“…Such artefacts (tools, land cultivation traces, ceramics) are primarily indicative of improved climatic conditions in the Baltic Sea basin, in particular increased summer and winter air temperatures and humidity (Pazdur 2004;Poska et al 2004Poska et al , 2008Dolukhanov et al 2009aDolukhanov et al , b, 2010.…”

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Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Борзенкова

Zorita

Borisova

et al. 2015

Regional Climate Studies

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This chapter summarises the climatic and environmental information that can be inferred from proxy archives over the past 12,000 years. The proxy archives from continental and lake sediments include pollen, insect remnants and isotopic data. Over the Holocene, the Baltic Sea area underwent major changes due to two interrelated factors-melting of the Fennoscandian ice sheet (causing interplay between global sea-level rise due to the meltwater and regional isostatic rebound of the earth's crust causing a drop in relative sea level) and changes in the orbital configuration of the Earth (triggering the glacial to interglacial transition and affecting incoming solar radiation and so controlling the regional energy balance). The Holocene climate history showed three stages of natural climate oscillations in the Baltic Sea region: short-term cold episodes related to deglaciation during a stable positive temperature trend (11,000-8000 cal year BP); a warm and stable climate with air temperature 1.0-3.5°C above modern levels (8000-4500 cal year BP), a decreasing temperature trend; and increased climatic instability (last 5000-4500 years). The climatic variation during the Lateglacial and Holocene is reflected in the changing lake levels and vegetation, and in the formation of a complex hydrographical network that set the stage for the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age of the past millennium.

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Section: Methodology For Palaeoclimatic Reconstructionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Борзенкова

Zorita

Borisova

et al. 2015

Regional Climate Studies

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“…It is estimated that the world's extension of pre-agriculture forests was of 61.51 million km 2 , of which 15.51 million km 2 were lost prior to about 1500 A.D. The historical LCLUC models are relatively scarce and were mostly developed during the past two decades in several parts of the world, mainly in China, the USA, Europe and South America (Figure 1 [7,34,37,39,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]). Historical models of change have distinct disciplinary origins and use different space-time scales.…”

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“…between models within each group became evident (Figure 2 [7,[32][33][34][35]37,39,[62][63][64][65][66][67][69][70][71][72]75,[80][81][82][83]). Models made for estimating GHG emissions mostly use small scales, given that such estimates do not require much detail and are more useful when they provide global information or are used as inputs for climatic models.…”

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Modeling Historical Land Cover and Land Use: A Review fromContemporary Modeling

Chang-Martínez

Mas

Valle

et al. 2015

IJGI

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Spatially-explicit land cover land use change (LCLUC) models are becoming increasingly useful tools for historians and archaeologists. Such kinds of models have been developed and used by geographers, ecologists and land managers over the last few decades to carry out prospective scenarios. In this paper, we review historical models to compare them with prospective models, with the assumption that the ample experience gained in the development of models of prospective simulation can benefit the development of models having as their objective the simulation of changes that happened in the past. The review is divided into three sections: in the first section, we explain the functioning of contemporary LCLUC models; in the second section, we analyze historical LCLUC models; in the third section, we compare the former two types of models, and finally, we discuss the contributions to historical LCLUC models of contemporary LCLUC models.

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“…Anyhow there are some references to the fire cultivation practices of the pre-historic period in Estonia (e.g. Laul & Kihno, 1999;Niinemets, 2008;Poska et al, 2008;Saarse et al, 2010).…”

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Tracing fire cultivation in Estonia

Jääts

Kihno²,

Tomson³

et al. 2010

Forestry Studies / Metsanduslikud Uurimused

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Abstract. Fire cultivation is possibly the agricultural land-use method of the longest duration in Estonia; yet still it has attracted little attention from researchers. The aim of this paper is two-fold: firstly, to discuss the latest stage of historical bushland management via fire cultivation as it appears in historical sources, and secondly to look for ways in which the natural historical research methods can be combined with those of the humanities in search of more complex understanding of land-use dynamics. The material analysed are the 19 th century agrarian laws and ethnographic data. These sources show that researchers have so far rather under-than overestimated the persistence and spread of fire use -a number of fire cultivation cases are reported even from the early 20th century from different parts of Estonia. Thus we suggest that bushland management with fire cultivation methods has continued longer than previously assumed. Analysis of the 19 th century Livonian agrarian laws shows that legislation of the period directed the land-use pattern away from the earlier practice of a mosaic or scattered patchwork of wooded areas and cleared fields, towards bigger wooded areas and more compact cultivated areas, thus bringing about changes in the landscape.

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Using quantitative pollen-based land-cover estimations and a spatial CA_Markov model to reconstruct the development of cultural landscape at Rõuge, South Estonia

Cited by 51 publications

References 25 publications

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Modeling Historical Land Cover and Land Use: A Review fromContemporary Modeling

Tracing fire cultivation in Estonia

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