The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)

Long-term fire ecology can help to better understand the major role played by fire in driving vegetation composition and structure over decadal to millennial timescales, along with climate change and human agency, especially in fire-prone areas such as the Mediterranean basin. Investigating past eco...

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Authors: Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Reyes, Blarquez, Olivier, Pérez Díaz, Sebastián|||0000-0002-2702-0058, Morales-Molino, César, López-Sáez, José Antonio
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Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
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spelling The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, ReyesBlarquez, OlivierPérez Díaz, Sebastián|||0000-0002-2702-0058Morales-Molino, CésarLópez-Sáez, José AntonioLong-term fire ecology can help to better understand the major role played by fire in driving vegetation composition and structure over decadal to millennial timescales, along with climate change and human agency, especially in fire-prone areas such as the Mediterranean basin. Investigating past ecosystem dynamics in response to changing fire activity, climate, and land use, and how these landscape drivers interact in the long-term is needed for efficient nature management, protection, and restoration. The Toledo Mountains of central Spain are a mid-elevation mountain complex with scarce current anthropic intervention located on the westernmost edge of the Mediterranean basin. These features provide a perfect setting to study patterns of late Holocene fire activity and landscape transformation. Here, we have combined macroscopic charcoal analysis with palynological data in three peat sequences (El Perro, Brezoso, and Viñuelas mires) to reconstruct fire regimes during recent millennia and their linkages to changes in vegetation, land use, and climatic conditions. During a first phase (5000?3000 cal. BP) characterized by mixed oak woodlands and low anthropogenic impact, climate exerted an evident influence over fire regimes. Later, the data show two phases of increasing human influence dated at 3000?500 cal. BP and 500 cal. BP?present, which translated into significant changes in fire regimes increasingly driven by human activity. These results contribute to prove how fire regimes have changed along with human societies, being more related to land use and less dependent on climatic cycles.This research was funded the project REDISCO-HAR2017-88035-P (Plan Nacional I+D+I, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger is funded by an Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU) grant (Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports).MDPI AGUniversidad de Cantabria20192019-10-16journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/18053Fire 2019, 2(4), 54reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/180532026-06-02T12:39:31Z
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title The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
spellingShingle The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Reyes
title_short The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
title_full The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
title_fullStr The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
title_full_unstemmed The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
title_sort The Iberian Peninsula's Burning Heart' Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Reyes
Blarquez, Olivier
Pérez Díaz, Sebastián|||0000-0002-2702-0058
Morales-Molino, César
López-Sáez, José Antonio
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Blarquez, Olivier
Pérez Díaz, Sebastián|||0000-0002-2702-0058
Morales-Molino, César
López-Sáez, José Antonio
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Pérez Díaz, Sebastián|||0000-0002-2702-0058
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López-Sáez, José Antonio
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description Long-term fire ecology can help to better understand the major role played by fire in driving vegetation composition and structure over decadal to millennial timescales, along with climate change and human agency, especially in fire-prone areas such as the Mediterranean basin. Investigating past ecosystem dynamics in response to changing fire activity, climate, and land use, and how these landscape drivers interact in the long-term is needed for efficient nature management, protection, and restoration. The Toledo Mountains of central Spain are a mid-elevation mountain complex with scarce current anthropic intervention located on the westernmost edge of the Mediterranean basin. These features provide a perfect setting to study patterns of late Holocene fire activity and landscape transformation. Here, we have combined macroscopic charcoal analysis with palynological data in three peat sequences (El Perro, Brezoso, and Viñuelas mires) to reconstruct fire regimes during recent millennia and their linkages to changes in vegetation, land use, and climatic conditions. During a first phase (5000?3000 cal. BP) characterized by mixed oak woodlands and low anthropogenic impact, climate exerted an evident influence over fire regimes. Later, the data show two phases of increasing human influence dated at 3000?500 cal. BP and 500 cal. BP?present, which translated into significant changes in fire regimes increasingly driven by human activity. These results contribute to prove how fire regimes have changed along with human societies, being more related to land use and less dependent on climatic cycles.
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