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Title: | Vegetation and landscape around Lake Montcortès (Catalan pre-Pyrenees) as a tool for palaeoecological studies of lake sediments |
Author: | Mercadé López, Arnau Vigo, Josep, 1937- Rull del Castillo, Valentí Vegas Vilarrúbia, Teresa Elena Garcés, S. Lara, Arantza Cañellas Boltà, Núria |
Keywords: | Flora Paleoecologia Sediments lacustres Pirineus Flora Paleoecology Lake sediments Pyrenees |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
Abstract: | Vegetation and landscape around Lake Montcortès (Catalan pre-Pyrenees) as a tool for palynological studies of lake sediments. Lake Montcortès (42º 19′ N, 0º 59′ E; 1,027 m elevation) is an excellent target for high-resolution palaeoecological studies because its annually-laminated sediments extending back to the early-middle Holocene. The detailed knowledge of present vegetation patterns around the lake and the pollen they release to lake sediments is essential for a reliable interpretation of past vegetation dynamics. This study aims to identify and map the vegetation types currently growing around the lake. For this purpose, a quadrangular area of ca. 48 ha was defined. The floristic study resulted in a catalogue of 534 species. Vegetation analysis was based on 42 phytosociological inventories used to synthesise and map the relevant plant landscape units. As a result, we obtained 52 vegetation units as expressions of the CORINE habitats previously defined for Catalonia. Each of these habitats was described in floristic, physiognomic, phytogeographic, environmental and human-use terms. The next step will be the palynological study of the more representative species of the described vegetation types, as a means to optimise future palynological interpretations. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2013.v32.00 |
It is part of: | Collectanea Botanica, 2013, vol. 32 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/120896 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2013.v32.008 |
ISSN: | 0010-0730 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals) |
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