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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.001
	Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago
	Marriner N.; Kaniewski D.; Gambin T.; Gambin B.; Vannière B.; Morhange C.; Djamali M.; Tachikawa K.; Robin V.; Rius D.; Bard E.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
起始页码	199
结束页码	205
卷号	212
英文摘要	The Holocene colonisation of islands by humans has invariably led to deep-seated changes in landscape dynamics and ecology. In particular, burning was a management tool commonly used by prehistoric societies and it acted as a major driver of environmental change, particularly from the Neolithic onwards. To assess the role of early human impacts (e.g. livestock grazing, forest clearance and the cultivation of marginal land) in shaping “pristine” island landscapes, we here present a 350-year record of fire history and erosion from Malta, straddling the earliest peopling of the island. We show that recurrent anthropogenic burning related to Neolithic agro-pastoral practices began ∼7500 years ago, with well-defined fire-return intervals (FRI) of 15–20 years that engendered erosion and rapid environmental degradation. As early as the Neolithic, this study implies that, in sensitive insular contexts, just a few generations of human activities could rapidly degrade natural islandscapes. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Fire; Holocene; Human impacts; Islands; Malta; Mediterranean; Neolithic; Palaeoecology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Ecology; Erosion; Fires; Holocenes; Human impact; Islands; Malta; Mediterranean; Neolithic; Palaeoecology; Landforms; anthropogenic effect; colonization; environmental degradation; fire; fire history; forest clearance; historical record; Holocene; island biogeography; landscape change; landscape ecology; Mediterranean environment; Neolithic; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; prehistoric; temporal variation; Malta [Southern Europe]
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151957
作者单位	CNRS, Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement UMR 6249, MSHE Ledoux, USR 3124, Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, UFR ST, 16 Route de Gray, Besançon, 25030, France; Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3, EcoLab (Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement), Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse cedex 9, 31062, France; CNRS, EcoLab (Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement), Toulouse cedex 9, 31062, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Secteur Biologie-Médecine-Santé, 103 boulevard Saint Michel, Paris, 75005, France; Department of Classics & Archaeology, University of Malta, Msida MSD2080, Malta; Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta, Msida MSD2080, Malta; Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France; Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, UMR 7263 IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France; Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Continental Environments, CNRS, University of Lorraine, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marriner N.,Kaniewski D.,Gambin T.,et al. Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago[J],2019,212.
APA	Marriner N..,Kaniewski D..,Gambin T..,Gambin B..,Vannière B..,...&Bard E..(2019).Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago.Quaternary Science Reviews,212.
MLA	Marriner N.,et al."Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago".Quaternary Science Reviews 212(2019).