Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135" target="_blank" >10.1126/sciadv.adi9135</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed-canopy forest; however, some argue that large herbivores maintained greater openness or even wood-pasture conditions. Here, we address this question for the Last Interglacial period (129,000-116,000 years ago), before Homo sapiens-linked megafauna declines and anthropogenic landscape transformation. We applied the vegetation reconstruction method REVEALS to 96 Last Interglacial pollen records. We found that light woodland and open vegetation represented, on average, more than 50% cover during this period. The degree of openness was highly variable and only partially linked to climatic factors, indicating the importance of natural disturbance regimes. Our results show that the temperate forest biome was historically heterogeneous rather than uniformly dense, which is consistent with the dependency of much of contemporary European biodiversity on open vegetation and light woodland.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

Popis výsledku anglicky

The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed-canopy forest; however, some argue that large herbivores maintained greater openness or even wood-pasture conditions. Here, we address this question for the Last Interglacial period (129,000-116,000 years ago), before Homo sapiens-linked megafauna declines and anthropogenic landscape transformation. We applied the vegetation reconstruction method REVEALS to 96 Last Interglacial pollen records. We found that light woodland and open vegetation represented, on average, more than 50% cover during this period. The degree of openness was highly variable and only partially linked to climatic factors, indicating the importance of natural disturbance regimes. Our results show that the temperate forest biome was historically heterogeneous rather than uniformly dense, which is consistent with the dependency of much of contemporary European biodiversity on open vegetation and light woodland.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Science advances

ISSN

2375-2548

e-ISSN

2375-2548

Svazek periodika

9

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

45

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

eadi9135

Kód UT WoS článku

001142520500015

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85176391045