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Potential natural vegetation and pre-anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context

dc.contributor.authorRull, Valenti
dc.contributor.authorConnor, Simon
dc.contributor.authorElias, Rui B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-20T15:07:14Z
dc.date.available2019-11-20T15:07:14Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the concept of potential natural vegetation (PNV) in the light of the pollen records available to date for the Macaronesian biogeographical region, with emphasis on the Azores Islands. The classical debate on the convenience or not of the PNV concept has been recently revived in the Canary Islands, where pollen records of pre-anthropic vegetation seemed to strongly disagree with the existing PNV reconstructions. Contrastingly, more recent PNV model outputs from the Azores Islands show outstanding parallelisms with pre-anthropic pollen records, at least in qualitative terms. We suggest the development of more detailed quantitative studies to compare these methodologies as an opportunity for improving the performance of both. PNV modelling may benefit by incorporating empirical data on past vegetation useful for calibration and validation purposes, whereas palynology may improve past reconstructions by minimizing interpretative biases linked to differential pollen production, dispersal and preservation.
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Economy and Competititvity, project PaleoNAO [CGL2010-15767]
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Economy and Competititvity, project RapidNAO [CGL2013-40608-R]
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Economy and Competititvity, project PaleoMODES [CGL2016-75281-C2-1-R]
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jbi.13083
dc.identifier.issn0305-0270
dc.identifier.issn1365-2699
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12943
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectReconstruction
dc.subjectPerspective
dc.subjectDynamics
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectCover
dc.titlePotential natural vegetation and pre-anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage2440
oaire.citation.issue11
oaire.citation.startPage2437
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Biogeography
oaire.citation.volume44
person.familyNameConnor
person.givenNameSimon
person.identifier1096134
person.identifier.ciencia-id171B-8713-654E
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-5685-2390
person.identifier.scopus-author-id7102766997
rcaap.rightsopenAccess
rcaap.typearticle
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