RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Vertical cliffs harbor millennia‐old junipers in the Canary Islands
A1 Sangüesa Barreda, Gabriel
A1 García-Cervigón Morales, Ana Isabel
A1 García Hidalgo, Miguel
A1 Rozas Ortiz, Vicente Fernando
A1 Martín Esquivel, José Luis
A1 Martín Carbajal, Javier
A1 Martínez, Raúl
A1 Olano Mendoza, José Miguel
K1 Human pressure
K1 Juniperus cedrus
K1 Marginal habitats
K1 Oceanic island
K1 Radiocarbon dating
K1 Tree longevity
K1 31 Ciencias Agrarias
AB The ability of trees to endure for millennia, surpassing human lifetimes, and survive the most destructive human and natural hazards is astonishing. But what is the ecological role of tree longevity? Are old trees more than impressive nature wonders? Can ancient trees become effective genetic reservoirs able to recover bygone ecosystems? Oceanic islands are ideal ecosystems to address these questions, as they have experienced recent and intense human-induced environmental changes. In the Canary Islands in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, human colonization since the fifth century BCE (Rodríguez-Varela et al., 2017) added logging, fire, and grazing pressure to a territory already experiencing regular volcanic activity. Tenerife Island is the most populated island of the Canary Islands archipelago and harbors the largest subalpine ecosystems in the entire Macaronesian Biogeographic Region. Woodlands in the Tenerife subalpine environment were once formed by the Canary Island juniper (Juniperus cedrus Webb. & Berthel.; hereafter juniper; Machado & Galván, 2012, García-Cervigón et al., 2019), but historical human pressure restricted its distribution to inaccessible spots, away from human activity, such as cliffs. [parte del texto]
PB Wiley
SN 0012-9658
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52839
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52839
LA eng
NO Ecology, 2022, vol. 103, n. 4, p. 1-5
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-abr-2024