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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, C Neil
dc.contributor.authorFyfe, R
dc.contributor.authorWoodbridge, Jessie
dc.contributor.authorGaillard, M-J
dc.contributor.authorDavis, BAS
dc.contributor.authorKaplan, JO
dc.contributor.authorMarquer, L
dc.contributor.authorMazier, F
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, AB
dc.contributor.authorSugita, S
dc.contributor.authorTrondman, A-K
dc.contributor.authorLeydet, M
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-16T15:31:25Z
dc.date.available2018-02-16T15:31:25Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-15
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherARTN 716
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10804
dc.description.abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>8000 years ago, prior to Neolithic agriculture, Europe was mostly a wooded continent. Since then, its forest cover has been progressively fragmented, so that today it covers less than half of Europe’s land area, in many cases having been cleared to make way for fields and pasture-land. Establishing the origin of Europe’s current, more open land-cover mosaic requires a long-term perspective, for which pollen analysis offers a key tool. In this study we utilise and compare three numerical approaches to transforming pollen data into past forest cover, drawing on &gt;1000 <jats:sup>14</jats:sup>C-dated site records. All reconstructions highlight the different histories of the mixed temperate and the northern boreal forests, with the former declining progressively since ~6000 years ago, linked to forest clearance for agriculture in later prehistory (especially in northwest Europe) and early historic times (e.g. in north central Europe). In contrast, extensive human impact on the needle-leaf forests of northern Europe only becomes detectable in the last two millennia and has left a larger area of forest in place. Forest loss has been a dominant feature of Europe’s landscape ecology in the second half of the current interglacial, with consequences for carbon cycling, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity.</jats:p>

dc.format.extent716-
dc.format.mediumElectronic
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectEurope
dc.subjectForests
dc.subjectFossils
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectPlant Dispersal
dc.subjectPlants
dc.subjectPollen
dc.subjectPopulation Density
dc.subjectRadiometric Dating
dc.titleEurope's lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
dc.typeResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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plymouth.issue1
plymouth.volume8
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalSCIENTIFIC REPORTS
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-017-18646-7
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dc.publisher.placeEngland
dcterms.dateAccepted2017-12-08
dc.identifier.eissn2045-2322
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