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

Published:2023-11-10 Issue:45 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
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Author:

Pearce Elena A.¹²^ORCID,Mazier Florence³^ORCID,Normand Signe¹²⁴⁵^ORCID,Fyfe Ralph⁶^ORCID,Andrieu Valérie⁷,Bakels Corrie⁸,Balwierz Zofia⁹,Bińka Krzysztof¹⁰,Boreham Steve¹¹^ORCID,Borisova Olga K.¹²^ORCID,Brostrom Anna¹³¹⁴^ORCID,de Beaulieu Jacques-Louis¹⁵,Gao Cunhai¹⁶^ORCID,González-Sampériz Penélope¹⁷^ORCID,Granoszewski Wojciech¹⁸,Hrynowiecka Anna¹⁹^ORCID,Kołaczek Piotr²⁰^ORCID,Kuneš Petr²¹^ORCID,Magri Donatella²²^ORCID,Malkiewicz Małgorzata²³^ORCID,Mighall Tim²⁴^ORCID,Milner Alice M.²⁵^ORCID,Möller Per¹³^ORCID,Nita Małgorzata²⁶^ORCID,Noryśkiewicz Bożena²⁷,Pidek Irena Agnieszka²⁸^ORCID,Reille Maurice¹⁵,Robertsson Ann-Marie²⁹^ORCID,Salonen J. Sakari³⁰^ORCID,Schläfli Patrick³¹^ORCID,Schokker Jeroen³²³³^ORCID,Scussolini Paolo³⁴^ORCID,Šeirienė Vaida³⁵^ORCID,Strahl Jaqueline³⁶^ORCID,Urban Brigitte³⁷^ORCID,Winter Hanna³⁸,Svenning Jens-Christian¹²⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) and Center for Biodiversity Dynamics (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

2. Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

3. Department of Environmental Geography, CNRS UMR GEODE 5602, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.

4. Center for Sustainable Landscapes under Global Change (SustainScapes), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

5. Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

6. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.

7. CEREGE, CNRS, IRD, Europôle de l'Arbois, BP 80, F-13545 Aix-en-Provence, France.

8. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, Netherlands.

9. Department of Geology and Geomorphology, University of Łódź, Narutowicza 88, 90-139 Łódź, Poland.

10. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

11. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK.

12. Independent researcher, Soloviny str. 4-1-224, 117593, Moscow, Russia.

13. Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.

14. Gymnasieskolan Knut Hahn, Blasius Königsgatan 27, 37232 Ronneby, Sweden.

15. Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.

16. Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 6B5, Canada.

17. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE–CSIC, Avda/Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.

18. Polish Geological Institute, National Research Institute, Carpathian Branch, Skrzatów 1, 31-560 Kraków, Poland.

19. Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Marine Geology Branch, ul. Kościerska 5, 80-328 Gdańsk, Poland.

20. Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Poznań 61-680, Poland.

21. Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.

22. Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy.

23. Laboratory of Paleobotany, Department of Stratigraphical Geology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Cybulskiego 34, 50-205 Wroclaw, Poland.

24. Department of Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK.

25. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.

26. Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland.

27. Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.

28. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Al. Krasnicka 2 d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland.

29. Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.

30. Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

31. Institute of Plant Sciences and Oechger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.

32. TNO, Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Postbus 80015, 3508 TA, Utrecht, Netherlands.

33. Faculty of Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

34. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

35. Nature Research Centre, Institute of Geology and Geography, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.

36. Landesamt für Bergbau, Geologie und Rohstoffe, Inselstraße 26, 03046 Cottbus, Germany.

37. Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, Lüneburg, Germany.

38. Polish Geological Institute, 00-975 Warsaw, Poland.

Abstract

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.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135

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