Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rubiales, Juan M
• Garcia-Amorena, Ignacio
• Garcia Alvarez, Salvia
• Morla, Carlos

Titel

Anthracological evidence suggests naturalness of Pinuspinaster in inland southwestern Iberia

Ist Teil von

• Plant ecology, 2009-02, Vol.200 (2), p.155-160

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The study of well-preserved archaeological charcoals in the pre-Roman Iron Age settlement of Castillejos II (Badajoz, Spain) is used to reconstruct environmental conditions and land-use practices in vegetation landscapes in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of Roman civilization. The results support that, while evergreen Quercus forests dominated during the Holocene, Pinuspinaster existed as a natural element of southwestern Iberian Peninsula vegetation. Although its presence could be linked to anthropogenic disturbance or fire history, it is suggested that P.pinaster populations survived during the Holocene in the region, mixed with oaks or in monospecific stands in mountain enclaves. This hypothesis contrasts with previous assumptions that P.pinaster was not autochthonous in the area.