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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106332
	Human impact and ecological changes during prehistoric settlement on the Canary Islands
	de Nascimento L.; Nogué S.; Naranjo-Cigala A.; Criado C.; McGlone M.; Fernández-Palacios E.; Fernández-Palacios J.M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	239
英文摘要	Oceanic islands remained free of humans until relatively recent times. On contact, humans encountered pristine environments with unique ecosystems and species highly vulnerable to novel impacts. In the course of rendering an island habitable, the new settlers transformed it through fire, deforestation, hunting and introduction of pests and weeds. The result, as described for many oceanic islands globally, has been a catastrophe for biodiversity. Here we present the case of the Canary Islands, an Atlantic archipelago renowned for its exceptional biodiversity, and show that these islands have been no exception to the general rule. We review the archaeological, palaeoecological, palaeontological and ecological literature for the archipelago and discuss the ecological consequences – in particular habitat transformation and biodiversity loss – of human settlement. In contrast to previous views that prehistoric humans had only limited impacts on these islands, we show that vegetation change, increased fire, soil erosion, species introductions and extinctions follow the familiar oceanic pattern. Timing of human settlement of the Canary Islands has been controversial, with revised archaeological dates suggesting a relatively late arrival at the beginning of the Common Era, while palaeoecological and palaeontological evidence favours a presence several centuries earlier. While the matter is still not settled, we suggest that settlement sometime between 2400 and 2000 cal years BP is a possibility. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Extinction; Holocene; Introduced species; North Atlantic; Oceanic islands; Paleogeography; Prehistoric human impact; Vegetation dynamics
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Biodiversity; Deforestation; Biodiversity loss; Ecological changes; Ecological consequences; Human settlements; Oceanic islands; Pristine environments; Species introductions; Vegetation change; Ecology; anthropogenic effect; archipelago; ecological approach; human settlement; paleoecology; paleontology; prehistoric; Canary Islands; Spain
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/151452
作者单位	Island Ecology and Biogeography Group, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, s/n, La Laguna, 38200, Spain; Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand; School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Department of Geography, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Calle Pérez del Toro, 1, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35003, Spain; Department of Geography and History, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Campus de Guajara, La Laguna, 38200, Spain; Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, Tübingen, 72070, Germany; Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarker Research Lab, Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica “Antonio González” (IUBO), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Avda. Astrofísico Fco. Sánchez, 2, La Laguna, 38200, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	de Nascimento L.,Nogué S.,Naranjo-Cigala A.,et al. Human impact and ecological changes during prehistoric settlement on the Canary Islands[J],2020,239.
APA	de Nascimento L..,Nogué S..,Naranjo-Cigala A..,Criado C..,McGlone M..,...&Fernández-Palacios J.M..(2020).Human impact and ecological changes during prehistoric settlement on the Canary Islands.Quaternary Science Reviews,239.
MLA	de Nascimento L.,et al."Human impact and ecological changes during prehistoric settlement on the Canary Islands".Quaternary Science Reviews 239(2020).