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Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France): the use of coprophilous fungi to reconstruct pastoral activity

Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2010-11, Vol.19 (5-6), p.391-408 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer-Verlag ;Springer-Verlag 2010 ;Vegetation History and Archaeobotany is a copyright of Springer, (2010). All Rights Reserved. ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0939-6314 ;EISSN: 1617-6278 ;DOI: 10.1007/s00334-010-0242-6

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Title:
Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France): the use of coprophilous fungi to reconstruct pastoral activity
Author: Cugny, Carole ; Mazier, Florence ; Galop, Didier
Subjects: Anthropology ; Aquatic ecosystems ; Archaeology ; Ascomycetes ; Ascomycota ; Ascospores ; Biogeosciences ; Climate Change ; Conidia ; Coprophilous ; Coprophilous fungi ; data collection ; Datasets ; Dung ; Earth and Environmental Science ; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences ; Earth Sciences ; ecosystems ; Feces ; Fossil pollen ; Fossils ; Fungal spores ; Fungi ; Geography ; Geologi ; Geology ; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap ; Grazing ; Grazing activities ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Landscape ; Modern and fossil NPPs ; mosses and liverworts ; Mountains ; Natural Sciences ; Naturvetenskap ; Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) ; Original Article ; Paleontology ; Pastoralism ; Pasture ; Peat ; Pollen ; Pressure ; Pyrene ; Pyrenees ; Spores ; Terrestrial ecosystems ; Terrestrial environments ; Vegetation ; Wetlands ; Woodlands
Is Part Of: Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2010-11, Vol.19 (5-6), p.391-408
Description: This paper presents results from a modern dataset of non-pollen palynomorphs and its application to a ca. 2,000 year peat record from the same area in the western Pyrenees (Basque Country, France). The modern dataset is composed of 35 surface samples (moss polsters) from a mountainous pasture-woodland landscape. Airborne fungal spores (ascospores and conidia), found dominant in the dataset, are linked to the degree of landscape openness and grazing pressure. The complete spectrum of 13 selected spore-types of dung-related Ascomycetes is positively linked with grazing pressure. However, different dung affinities between the spore-types have been identified. These are types clearly related to high grazing pressure and types with no or unclear dung indicative value. The modern dataset is used to aid interpretation of the local fossil pollen record as an independent ‘proxy’ to assess past pastoral dynamics. This study confirms the utility of modern non-pollen palynomorphs from terrestrial ecosystems in the reconstruction of historical local pastoral activities but also shows their limitation. It may be necessary to extend such study to wetland ecosystems and to investigate the spatial dimension of some fungal spores.
Publisher: Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
Language: English;French
Identifier: ISSN: 0939-6314
EISSN: 1617-6278
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-010-0242-6
Source: HAL SHS: Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (Open Access)
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Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France): the use of coprophilous fungi to reconstruct pastoral activity

Springer-Verlag ;Springer-Verlag 2010 ;Vegetation History and Archaeobotany is a copyright of Springer, (2010). All Rights Reserved. ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0939-6314 ;EISSN: 1617-6278 ;DOI: 10.1007/s00334-010-0242-6

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