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Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

Elena Pearce (1) , Florence Mazier (2) , Signe Normand (1) , Ralph Fyfe (3) , Valerie Andrieu (4) , Corrie Bakels (5) , Zofia Balwierz (6) , Krzysztof Bińka (7) , Steve Boreham (8) , Olga Borisova (9) , Anna Brostrom (10) , Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu (11) , Cunhai Gao (12) , Penélope González-Sampériz (13) , Wojciech Granoszewski (14) , Anna Hrynowiecka (15) , Piotr Kołaczek (16) , Petr Kuneš (17) , Donatella Magri (18) , Małgorzata Malkiewicz (19) , Tim Mighall (20) , Alice Milner (21) , Per Möller (10) , Małgorzata Nita (22) , Bożena Noryśkiewicz (23) , Irena Agnieszka Pidek (24) , Maurice Reille (11) , Ann-Marie Robertsson (25) , J. Sakari Salonen (26) , Patrick Schläfli (27) , Jeroen Schokker (28) , Paolo Scussolini (29) , Vaida Šeirienė (30) , Jaqueline Strahl (31) , Brigitte Urban (32) , Hanna Winter (33) , Jens-Christian Svenning (1)
1 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
2 GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement
3 Plymouth University
4 CEREGE - Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement
5 Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University
6 Department of Geology and Geomorphology, University of Łódź, Narutowicza 88, 90-139 Łódź, Poland
7 Faculty of Mechanical and Engineering Production
8 Department of Geography [Cambridge, UK]
9 Institute of Geography of RAS
10 Skane University Hospital [Lund]
11 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
12 Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 6B5, Canada
13 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE–CSIC, Avda/Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
14 Polish Geological Institute, National Research Institute, Carpathian Branch
15 Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Marine Geology Branch, ul. Kościerska 5, 80-328 Gdańsk, Poland
16 Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Poznań 61-680, Poland
17 UK - Univerzita Karlova [Praha, Česká republika] = Charles University [Prague, Czech Republic]
18 UNIROMA - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]
19 UWr - University of Wrocław [Poland]
20 University of Aberdeen
21 Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
22 Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
23 Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
24 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Al. Krasnicka 2 d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland.
25 Stockholm University
26 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
27 Institute of Plant Sciences and Oechger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland
28 TNO, Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Postbus 80015, 3508 TA, Utrecht, Netherlands
29 Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
30 Nature Research Centre, Institute of Geology and Geography, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.
31 Landesamt für Bergbau, Geologie und Rohstoffe, Inselstraße 26, 03046 Cottbus, Germany
32 Leuphana University of Lüneburg
33 Polish Geological Institute, 00-975 Warsaw, Poland
Elena Pearce
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Aarhus University [Aarhus]
Florence Mazier
Géographie de l'environnement
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Signe Normand
Aarhus University [Aarhus]
Ralph Fyfe
Plymouth University
Valerie Andrieu
Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement
Corrie Bakels
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Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University
Zofia Balwierz
  • Fonction : Auteur
Department of Geology and Geomorphology, University of Łódź, Narutowicza 88, 90-139 Łódź, Poland
Krzysztof Bińka
  • Fonction : Auteur
Faculty of Mechanical and Engineering Production
Steve Boreham
Department of Geography [Cambridge, UK]
Olga Borisova
Institute of Geography of RAS
Anna Brostrom
Skane University Hospital [Lund]
Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
Cunhai Gao
Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 6B5, Canada
Penélope González-Sampériz
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE–CSIC, Avda/Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Wojciech Granoszewski
  • Fonction : Auteur
Polish Geological Institute, National Research Institute, Carpathian Branch
Anna Hrynowiecka
Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Marine Geology Branch, ul. Kościerska 5, 80-328 Gdańsk, Poland
Piotr Kołaczek
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Poznań 61-680, Poland
Petr Kuneš
Univerzita Karlova [Praha, Česká republika] = Charles University [Prague, Czech Republic]
Donatella Magri
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]
Małgorzata Malkiewicz
University of Wrocław [Poland]
Tim Mighall
University of Aberdeen
Alice Milner
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
Per Möller
Skane University Hospital [Lund]
Małgorzata Nita
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
Bożena Noryśkiewicz
  • Fonction : Auteur
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Irena Agnieszka Pidek
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Al. Krasnicka 2 d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland.
Maurice Reille
  • Fonction : Auteur
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
Ann-Marie Robertsson
Stockholm University
J. Sakari Salonen
Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
Patrick Schläfli
Institute of Plant Sciences and Oechger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland
Jeroen Schokker
TNO, Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Postbus 80015, 3508 TA, Utrecht, Netherlands
Paolo Scussolini
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vaida Šeirienė
Nature Research Centre, Institute of Geology and Geography, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Jaqueline Strahl
Landesamt für Bergbau, Geologie und Rohstoffe, Inselstraße 26, 03046 Cottbus, Germany
Brigitte Urban
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Hanna Winter
  • Fonction : Auteur
Polish Geological Institute, 00-975 Warsaw, Poland
Jens-Christian Svenning
Aarhus University [Aarhus]

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The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed-canopy forest; however, some argue that large herbivores maintained greater openness or even wood-pasture conditions. Here, we address this question for the Last Interglacial period (129,000–116,000 years ago), before Homo sapiens –linked megafauna declines and anthropogenic landscape transformation. We applied the vegetation reconstruction method REVEALS to 96 Last Interglacial pollen records. We found that light woodland and open vegetation represented, on average, more than 50% cover during this period. The degree of openness was highly variable and only partially linked to climatic factors, indicating the importance of natural disturbance regimes. Our results show that the temperate forest biome was historically heterogeneous rather than uniformly dense, which is consistent with the dependency of much of contemporary European biodiversity on open vegetation and light woodland.

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Elena Pearce, Florence Mazier, Signe Normand, Ralph Fyfe, Valerie Andrieu, et al.. Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens. Science Advances , 2023, 9 (45), pp.1-14. ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adi9135⟩. ⟨hal-04284426⟩

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