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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Las Tablas de Daimiel and Its Evolution During the Quaternary Period

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Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands

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Pollen analyses demonstrated that changes experienced in Las Tablas de Daimiel (TDNP) area throughout the Quaternary took place mainly through climate-induced landscape transformations as well as by human activities occurring in the region during the last 1,000 years. From a climatic point of view, the regional Pleistocene landscape was dominated by Mediterranean forest (Quercus, mesophilus taxa and Pinus) during warm and humid periods, while open landscapes, depicted by xeric grass and steppes, were abundant in dry and cold events (Late Maximun Glaciar and Younger Dryas). The Holocene period showed an increased trend towards the Mediterranean forest. In this historical framework, TDNP evolved from a lacustrine environment to a fluctuating freshwater marsh, through to a braided river during the last 250,000 years. The use of a high resolution pollen record, in combination with geochemical data in charophyte and detrital sediment layers allowed wetland reconstruction during the last 3,000 years, introducing a new climatic dataset for the Late Holocene. Despite the lack of any direct evidence of human action, there were some deforestation episodes during the Spanish Re-conquest of Iberian Muslim territories (Middle Age) which did not to correlate with the climatic signal. It was clearly observed, since ecological changes were controlled by climatic variability at the beginning of the sequence, while the later intense human-made disturbances abruptly interfered with the natural recovery mechanism of the ecosystem.

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Ruiz-Zapata, B., Gil-García, M.J., de Bustamante, I. (2010). Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Las Tablas de Daimiel and Its Evolution During the Quaternary Period. In: Sánchez-Carrillo, S., Angeler, D. (eds) Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands. Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9181-9_2

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