RT Journal Article
T1 Environmental and climate change in the southern Central Pyrenees since the Last Glacial Maximum: A view from the lake records
A1 González Sampériz, Penélope
A1 Aranbarri Erkiaga, Josu
A1 Pérez Sanz, Ana
A1 Gil Romera, Graciela
A1 Moreno, Ana
A1 Leunda Esnaola, María
A1 Sevilla Callejo, Miguel
A1 Corella, Juan Pablo
A1 Morellón Marteles, Mario
A1 Oliva Urcia, Belén
A1 Valero Garcés, Blas
AB In this contribution we compile and summarize the available paleo-environmental lacustrine data for the last 20,000 years from the southern Central Pyrenees (from west to east: El Portalet, Tramacastilla, Basa de la Mora, Estanya, Redon, Montcortès and Marcelino lakes) and present a new sequence from mid altitude (Holocene record of Lake Estanya). Multiproxy analyses of lake records have identified large vegetation and hydrological changes during last glacial, deglaciation and the Holocene periods at millennial, centennial and even decadal scales and documented their timing, intensity and varied nature. The review indicates that landscape dynamics in the Pyrenees have been greatly controlled by both long term and abrupt climate changes and, since the Middle Holocene, and particularly since Medieval times, by human activities as new transforming agent. Although high internal variability characterized every site, common temporal trends are evidenced, as well as a suggestive western–eastern gradient superimposed to the expected altitudinal one (highlands versus lowlands). Thus, the long-term Central Pyrenees environmental history presents a relatively high degree of internal coherence across space and provides some past scenarios of landscape-climate interactions to evaluate the expected impacts of current and future Global Change.
PB Elsevier
SN 0341-8162
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96277
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96277
LA eng
NO González-Sampériz, Penélope, et al. «Environmental and Climate Change in the Southern Central Pyrenees since the Last Glacial Maximum: A View from the Lake Records». CATENA, vol. 149, febrero de 2017, pp. 668-88. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.041.
NO Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (España)
NO Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales
NO Eusko Jaurlaritza
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 abr 2025