Legacy of wood charcoal production on subalpine forest structure and species composition.
Anthracology
Historical ecology
Land-use legacy
LiDAR
Relic charcoal hearths
Spatial patterns
Journal
Ambio
ISSN: 1654-7209
Titre abrégé: Ambio
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 0364220
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
03
03
2022
accepted:
17
05
2022
revised:
04
05
2022
pubmed:
11
6
2022
medline:
25
10
2022
entrez:
10
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Land-use legacy on forest dynamics at both stand and landscape scale can last for centuries, affecting forest structure and species composition. We aimed to disentangle the history of the charcoal production legacies that historically shaped Mont Avic Natural Park (Aosta Valley, Italy) forests by integrating LiDAR, GIS, anthracological, and field data at the landscape scale. We adopted different geostatistical tools to relate geographic layers from various data sources. The overexploitation due to intensive charcoal production to fuel mining activities shaped the current forests by homogenising their structure and species composition into dense and young stands with a reduction in late seral species such as Norway spruce (Picea abies) and an increase in pioneer species such as Mountain pine (Pinus uncinata). The multidisciplinary and multi-scale framework adopted in this study stresses the role of historical landscape ecology in evaluating ecosystem resilience to past anthropogenic disturbances.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35680704
doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01750-y
pii: 10.1007/s13280-022-01750-y
pmc: PMC9584004
doi:
Substances chimiques
Charcoal
16291-96-6
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2496-2507Subventions
Organisme : Interreg V-A Italy/Switzerland 2014/2020
ID : 622393
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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