Quaternary paleoenvironments and paleoclimate in the Mediterranean area

Firenze 16-18 December2019

ADELE BERTINI and NATHALIE COMBOURIEU-NEBOUT

(DST, Università di Firenze; UMR 7194 CNRS, Parigi Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

The future of Mediterranean ecosystems and landscapes is clearly tied to water availability and global climate change. 

While modern vegetation data from the region provide a baseline for understanding relationships between aridity and vegetation composition, paleoecologicalrecords bring support for understanding vegetation responses at longer time scales. 

Paleoecologicalrecords show that aridity, as a feature of the Mediterranean basin, appeared early, gradually increasing up to the present time. 

Thiscoursefocusesonunderstandingthe:

1.responseofvegetation/environment(from2.6Ma)tovariationsinclimaticforcingonorbitalandmillennial/submillennialtimescales;

2.drivingandenvironmentalcontextofthephasesofmigrationandsuccessivecolonizationofhomininsincludingtheimpactofhumanpracticesintherecentperiods;

3.interglacialfeaturesfrom2.6MaforabetterevaluationofthefutureandlengthoftheHolocene.