DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.001
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85062619806
论文题名: Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago
作者: Marriner N. ; Kaniewski D. ; Gambin T. ; Gambin B. ; Vannière B. ; Morhange C. ; Djamali M. ; Tachikawa K. ; Robin V. ; Rius D. ; Bard E.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2019
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Fire
; Holocene
; Human impacts
; Islands
; Malta
; Mediterranean
; Neolithic
; Palaeoecology
Scopus关键词: Agriculture
; Ecology
; Erosion
; Fires
; Holocenes
; Human impact
; Islands
; Malta
; Mediterranean
; Neolithic
; Palaeoecology
; Landforms
英文摘要: The Holocene colonisation of islands by humans has invariably led to deep-seated changes in landscape dynamics and ecology. In particular, burning was a management tool commonly used by prehistoric societies and it acted as a major driver of environmental change, particularly from the Neolithic onwards. To assess the role of early human impacts (e.g. livestock grazing, forest clearance and the cultivation of marginal land) in shaping “pristine” island landscapes, we here present a 350-year record of fire history and erosion from Malta, straddling the earliest peopling of the island. We show that recurrent anthropogenic burning related to Neolithic agro-pastoral practices began ∼7500 years ago, with well-defined fire-return intervals (FRI) of 15–20 years that engendered erosion and rapid environmental degradation. As early as the Neolithic, this study implies that, in sensitive insular contexts, just a few generations of human activities could rapidly degrade natural islandscapes. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/117425
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Marriner N.,Kaniewski D.,Gambin T.,et al. Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2019-01-01