J 2023

High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy

BADINO, Federica, Roberta PINI, Cesare RAVAZZI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Paolo BERTULETTI et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy

Autoři

BADINO, Federica (garant), Roberta PINI, Cesare RAVAZZI, Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Paolo BERTULETTI, Eugenio BORTOLINI, Lydie DUDOVÁ, Marco PERESANI, Matteo ROMANDINI a Stefano BENAZZI

Vydání

Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio, 2023, 2045-2322

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10611 Plant sciences, botany

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.600 v roce 2022

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132428

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

001107684000009

Klíčová slova anglicky

Animals; Ecosystem; Forests; Humans; Italy; Neanderthals; Trees

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 13. 2. 2024 09:40, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we present a new radiocarbon dated record from Lake Fimon (NE-Italy) covering the 60–27 ka interval. Palynological, charcoal fragments and sediment lithology analysis were carried out at centennial to sub-centennial resolutions. Identification of the best modern analogues for MIS 3 ecosystems further enabled to thoroughly reconstruct structural changes in the vegetation through time. This series also represents an “off-site” reference record for chronologically well-constrained Palaeolithic sites documenting Neanderthal and Homo sapiens occupations within the same region. Neanderthals lived in a mosaic of grasslands and woodlands, composed of a mixture of boreal and broad-leaved temperate trees analogous to those of the modern Central-Eastern Europe, the Southern Urals and central-southern Siberia. Dry and other grassland types expanded steadily from 44 to 43 ka and peaked between 42 and 39 ka, i.e., about the same time when Sapiens reached this region. This vegetation, which finds very few reliable modern analogues in the adopted Eurasian calibration set, led to the expansion of ecosystems able to sustain large herds of herbivores. During 39–27 ka, the landscape was covered by steppe, desert-steppe and open dry boreal forests similar to those of the modern Altai-Sayan region. Both Neanderthal and Sapiens lived in contexts of expanded fire-prone ecosystems modulated by the high-frequency climatic cycles of MIS 3.