Responses of a Saline Lake Ecosystem in a Semiarid Region to Irrigation and Climate Variability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10889797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blas L Valero-Garcés, Blas L Valero‐garcé (0000-0003-2214-7057, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Ana Navas (0000-0002-4724-7532, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Javier Machin, J Machı́n (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Tony Stevenson (0000-0002-8870-1041, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author), Basil Davis (0000-0002-7148-1863, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 344 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AMBIO (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209 |
| Publisher | American Bryological and Lichenological Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1639/0044-7447(2000)029[0344:roasle]2.0.co;2 |
| OpenAlex | W3020942248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
To adequately manage the fragile and changing environments of semiarid regions it is essential to disentangle human from climate or other environmental impacts over longer timescales than human memory. We investigated sediment cores from Salada Chiprana, a saline lake in the central Ebro basin in Spain, using pollen, charcoal, sedimentological, geochemical and radiometric dating techniques. The sequence indicates a rapid evolution from an ephemeral playa lake during the Late Holocene to a permanent saline lake a few centuries ago. The limnological evolution correlates with changes in agricultural practices and provides evidence of the strong impact of irrigation on the lake's hydrological balance from the XVth century. The work demonstrates that the Salada Chiprana, the only permanent, relatively deep, hypersaline lake in Spain has been created by a long history of human interaction with the landscape.
Arid · Aridification · Climate change · Ecosystem · Ephemeral key · Geography · Holocene · Irrigation · Lake ecosystem · Physical geography · Sediment · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Oceanography · Paleontology · Soil erosion and sediment transport
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2011 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |