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Late Holocene ecological history of Pinus pinaster forests in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain

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This article describes the patterns and processes of vegetation change and fire history in the Late Holocene (c. 2400 calendar year BP) palaeoecological sequence of Lanzahíta, Sierra de Gredos in central Spain, and provides the first Iberian pollen sequence undertaken within a monospecific Pinus pinaster woodland. These new data reassess not only the autochthonous nature of this pine species in the region and the Iberian Peninsula, but also the naturalness of well-developed cluster pine forests. Conflicts of palaeoecological evidence with phytosociological models of vegetation dynamics in the study region, and the relationships of P. pinaster with fire occurrence in Mediterranean-type ecosystems, are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the projects HAR2008-06477-C03-03/HIST, CGL-2006-2956-BOS (Plan Nacional I + D + i, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain), CSD2007-00058 (Consolider Program, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain) and Paleodiversitas Network (Fundación Séneca, Murcia). Milagros Tapia Ariza, Paco Peón, Mariano Martín and Daniel Sánchez-Mata provided guidance and advice throughout the study. We thank the personnel of Ayuntamiento de Lanzahíta for logistical support. G. Reher corrected the final English version of the manuscript.

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    José Antonio López-Sáez, Lourdes López-Merino & Sebastián Pérez-Díaz

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López-Sáez, J.A., López-Merino, L., Alba-Sánchez, F. et al. Late Holocene ecological history of Pinus pinaster forests in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain. Plant Ecol 206, 195–209 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-009-9634-z

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