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Vegetation history of SE Sicily from feudal land management to post-war agricultural industrialization
- Source :
- Review of palaeobotany and palynology 296 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104547, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Michelangeli F.; Di Rita F.; Lirer F.; Lubritto C.; Bellucci L.G.; Cascella A.; Bonomo S.; Margaritelli G.; Magri D./titolo:Vegetation history of SE Sicily from feudal land management to post-war agricultural industrialization/doi:10.1016%2Fj.revpalbo.2021.104547/rivista:Review of palaeobotany and palynology/anno:2022/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:296
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- A new marine pollen record from SE Sicily is presented. The pollen study was done at a sub-decadal resolution to assess the role and extent of human impact in driving regional environmental and land cover changes over the last four hundred years. The combination of palaeoecological evidence and historical documents provides a detailed report of the main ecological dynamics in relation to socio-economic events, past land use, and land management regulations in Sicily. Our palaeovegetational reconstruction reveals a remarkably stable landscape, preserved by traditional land use practices that have persisted through the long-lasting feudal history of Sicily. After centuries of human-induced environmental stability, an abrupt change in vegetation structure occurred around 1950 AD, reflecting the modern land use policies and agricultural reforms following the Second World War. This vegetational breakpoint in SE Sicily corresponds to a suggested date for the onset of the Anthropocene. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Subjects :
- Land use
Past land use
business.industry
Feudalism
Historical ecology
Zelkova
Land management
Paleontology
Vegetation
Land cover
Late Holocene
Industrialisation
Geography
Agriculture
Anthropocene
historical ecology
marine palynology
past land use
Sicily
Physical geography
business
Marine palynology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00346667
- Volume :
- 296
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b56a01d0ed5ffab236418f0b72c30ca6