Heathlands confronting global change: drivers of biodiversity loss from past to future scenarios

J Fagúndez - Annals of botany, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Heathlands are dynamic plant communities characterized by a high cover of
sclerophyllous, ericoid shrubs that develop over nutrient-poor soils. Interest in the …

[图书][B] Monuments on the horizon: the formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC

Q Bourgeois - 2013 - library.oapen.org
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some
regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long …

Neolithic population crash in northwest Europe associated with agricultural crisis

S Colledge, J Conolly, E Crema, S Shennan - Quaternary Research, 2019 - cambridge.org
The focus of this paper is the Neolithic of northwest Europe, where a rapid growth in
population between~ 5950 and~ 5550 cal yr BP is followed by a decline that lasted until …

Bronze Age 'herostrats': ritual, political, and domestic economies in Early Bronze Age Denmark

MK Holst, M Rasmussen, K Kristiansen… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - cambridge.org
In this article we argue that within the Danish Bronze Age there was a short-lived period
(roughly 1500–1150 bc) that witnessed a dramatic investment of resources into the …

Biodiversity, vegetation gradients and key biogeochemical processes in the heathland landscape

MCC De Graaf, R Bobbink, NAC Smits… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
The northwest European heathland landscape with its characteristic communities of nutrient-
poor and acidic soils has a high nature value, because of its locally high biodiversity and the …

[HTML][HTML] Variations in modern pollen distribution in sediments from nearby upland lakes: implications for the interpretation of paleoecological data

A Castro-Parada, CM Sobrino - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022 - Elsevier
To determine whether modern pollen content in sediments from upland lake systems reflects
the factual regional and extra-local vegetation composition, we analysed twenty-five …

[图书][B] Ancestral heaths: reconstructing the barrow landscape in the Central and Southern Netherlands

M Doorenbosch - 2013 - library.oapen.org
Barrows, ie burial mounds, are amongst the most important of Europe's prehistoric
monuments. Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominent elements in the …

Ancestral commons theorized: the entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe

M Haughton, M Løvschal - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2024 - Elsevier
The emergence of open, disturbed grazing landscapes across Early Bronze Age Northern
Europe coincided with a boom in the building of monumental barrows, often placed in linear …

Investigations on buried soils and colluvial layers around Bronze Age burial mounds at Bornhöved (northern Germany): an approach to test the hypothesis …

S Dreibrodt, O Nelle, I Lütjens, A Mitusov… - The …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The idea of open landscapes around prehistoric burial mounds is founded on their
topographical position and findings of plaggen clots within the hills at some sites. We have …

Spatial analysis of heath toponymy in relation to present-day heathland distribution

J Fagúndez, J Izco - International Journal of Geographical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We explore the use of toponyms as an information source of land use changes in heathland
landscapes of Galicia, an Atlantic region of northwest Spain. Heathlands are prized for their …