Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece
Datos Bibliográficos
Mesomediterranean vegetation with abundant evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs is dominant along the coast of northern Greece. Well-dated palynological records are available from the inland submediterranean zone, where evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs are absent or rare, but less is known about the vegetation history of the coastal area. For instance, it is unclear when and why evergreen broadleaved vegetation expanded during the Holocene. Here we present a new record from a mesomediterranean site, Limni Volvi, near the coast of the Aegean Sea. To understand Holocene vegetation history, we combined palynology, microscopic charcoal analysis and biogeochemical proxies (Ti, Ca, RABD 655–680max ). At the start of the Holocene, open steppe vegetation and high fire activity prevailed around Limni Volvi. Afforestation by deciduous trees was likely delayed compared to sites further inland, due to the lack of moisture at the start of the Holocene, but vegetation composition was generally similar (i.e. submediterranean), with barely any evergreen broadleaved element. Around 8150 cal. BP (6200 cal. BC) trees and shrubs declined in the open woodlands or parklands, and the landscape returned to steppe conditions at 8000 cal. BP (6050 cal. BC), likely because of drier and colder conditions during the “8.2 ka event.” Around the same time, cultural indicators suggest the start of Neolithic agriculture in the region. The present-day mesomediterranean vegetation with evergreen oaks only began to develop after 6000–5000 cal. BP (4050–3050 cal. BC), likely in response to increasing winter temperatures and reduced frost occurrence, further advantaged by human impact during the past 3600 years
Archaeology · Climate change · Climatology · Geography · Holocene · Land use · Physical geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe
A forest on the edge
Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Age woodland composition and exploitation in the Great Hungarian Plain, East‐Central Europe
Coprophilous fungal spores in modern lowland agropastoral ecosystems of Eastern-Central Europe reflect herbivore grazing pressure
Late Holocene deforestation and reforestation controls lake mixing regimes and aquatic ecology
Speleothem evidence for late Holocene climate variability and floods in Southern Greece
Middle Holocene rapid environmental changes and human adaptation in Greece
Multiproxy ecosystem response of abrupt Holocene climatic changes in the northeastern Mediterranean sedimentary archive and hydrologic regime
Palynology of the First 30 Metres of a 120 M Deep Section in Northern Greece
Holocene atmosphere-ocean interactions
Karakterisering af løse jordarter
Fossil ascomycetes in Quaternary deposits
Ecological significance of common nonarboreal pollen
Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes
Sea-land correlation of pollen records in the Eastern Mediterranean for the glacial-interglacial transition
Determination of the number of zones in a biostratigraphical sequence
Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?
The vegetational history of the Balkans
Regional diversity on the timing for the initial appearance of cereal cultivation and domestication in southwest Asia
The Nonconcept of Species Diversity
A long-term numerical solution for the insolation quantities of the Earth
Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy
The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization
Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey
Reconstructing past fire regimes
Pollen et spores d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord
Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process
Numerical methods in quaternary pollen analysis
Human-landscape interactions in Halkidiki (NC Greece) over the last 3.5 millennia, revealed through palynological, and archaeological-historical archives
The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean
Landscape Response to Dynamic Human Pressure in the Paliouras Lagoon, Halkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece
Vegetation and climate history of the Lake Prespa region since the Lateglacial
Dark Ages Cold Period
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies
Relationships between calibrated ages and depth in stratigraphical sequences
Chironomid-inferred Holocene temperature changes in the South Carpathians (Romania)
Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Aegean region
The use of Rarefaction Analysis for Estimating Palynological Richness from Quaternary Pollen-Analytical Data
Minimum count sums for charcoal concentration estimates in pollen slides
A high-resolution study of planktonic foraminifera during the Holocene at the Tilos-Symi sea basin in the SE Aegean Sea
Modern pollen – vegetation – plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece
Size parameters, size-class distribution and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal
Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece
Pollen–vegetation–climate relationships in some desert and desert-steppe communities in northern China
Determining the long-term changes in biodiversity and provisioning services along a transect from Central Europe to the Mediterranean
Fire—vegetation interactions during the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition at Lago dell'Accesa, Tuscany, Italy
Holocene seasonality changes in the central Mediterranean region reconstructed from the pollen sequences of Lake Accesa (Italy) and Tenaghi Philippon (Greece)
Dung fungi as a proxy for megaherbivores
On the Holocene vegetation history of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, southern Greece)
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Vegetation and fire history of coastal north-eastern Sardinia (Italy) under changing Holocene climates and land use
Vegetation history, climate and human impact over the last 15,000 years at Lago dell’Accesa (Tuscany, Central Italy)
The Holocene history of vegetation and settlement at the coastal site of Lake Voulkaria in Acarnania, western Greece
New palynological and tephrostratigraphical investigations of two salt lagoons on the island of Mljet, south Dalmatia, Croatia
New insights on stomata analysis of European conifers 65 years after the pioneering study of Werner Trautmann (1953)
Influence of human impact and bedrock differences on the vegetational history of the Insubrian Southern Alps
Years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)
Years of interactions between climate, vegetation and land use in Northern Greece
Dating of the Lower Pleistocene Vertebrate Site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece)
Radiocarbon Wiggle Matching on Laminated Sediments Delivers High-Precision Chronologies
The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective
A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of Agriculture in Southwest Asia
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |