Long-term drivers of forest composition in a boreonemoral region: the relative importance of climate and human impact

T Reitalu; H. Seppä; M. Kangur; T. Koff; E. Avel; K. Kihno; J. Vassiljev; D. Hammarlund; H. Renssen; M. Heikkila; L. Saarse; A. Poska; S. Veski

doi:10.1111/jbi.12092

Long-term drivers of forest composition in a boreonemoral region: the relative importance of climate and human impact

T Reitalu, H. Seppä, M. Kangur, T. Koff, E. Avel, K. Kihno, J. Vassiljev, D. Hammarlund, H. Renssen, M. Heikkila, L. Saarse, A. Poska, S. Veski

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Aim: To assess statistically the relative importance of climate and human impact on forest composition in the late Holocene. Location: Estonia, boreonemoral Europe. Methods: Data on forest composition (10 most abundant tree and shrub taxa) for the late Holocene (5100-50 calibrated years before 1950) were derived from 18 pollen records and then transformed into land-cover estimates using the REVEALS vegetation reconstruction model. Human impact was quantified with palaeoecological estimates of openness, frequencies of hemerophilous pollen types (taxa growing in habitats influenced by human activities) and microscopic charcoal particles. Climate data generated with the ECBilt-CLIO-VECODE climate model provided summer and winter temperature data. The modelled data were supported by sedimentary stable oxygen isotope (δ

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1524-1534
Journal	Journal of Biogeography
Volume	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12092
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Long-term drivers of forest composition in a boreonemoral region: the relative importance of climate and human impact

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