@misc{10481/55175,
year = {2018},
month = {7},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/55175},
abstract = {Mid-mountain ecosystems provide a broad diversity of resources, heterogeneous relief,
and a mild climate, which are all very useful for human necessities. These features enable different
strategies such as the terracing of the slopes as well as wide crop diversification. Their relations lead
to a parallel co-evolution between the environment and human societies, where fire and grazing
become the most effective landscape management tools. This paper presents the results obtained from
a multi-proxy study of the Bermú paleoenvironmental record, which is a minerotrophic mire located
in the Quintos de Mora National Hunting Reserve (Toledo Mountains, central Spain). The bottom of
this core has been dated in the Islamic period (ca. 711–1100 cal AD), and the study shows how the
landscape that was built over time in the Toledo Mountains up to the present day is narrowly linked
to human development. This study shows the increasing human pressure on the landscape, as well
as the subsequent strategies followed by the plant and human communities as they faced diverse
environmental changes. Thus, it is possible to attest the main role played by the humans in the Toledo
Mountains, not only as a simple user, but also as a builder of their own reflexion in the environment.},
organization = {This research was funded the project REDISCO-HAR2017-88035-P (Plan Nacional I+D+I, Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). Reyes Luelmo is funded by a FPU grant (Spanish Ministry of
Education, Culture and Sports).},
organization = {This publication was funded by the Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica—CEA 2018
Award for the oral presentation titled ‘A mid-mountain landscape shaped during fourteen centuries in the
heart of Toledo Mountains (central Iberia).},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Mid-mountains},
keywords = {Paleoecology},
keywords = {Late Holocene},
keywords = {Central Spain},
title = {Vegetation History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Iberia): Human Impact during the Last 1300 Years},
author = {Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Reyes and Pérez-Díaz, Sebastián and Alba Sánchez, María Francisca and Abel Schaad, Daniel and López-Sáez, José Antonio},
}