Emma Antoine, Laurent Marquer, Bernhard Muigg, Willy Tegel, Ugo Bisson, Matthias Bolliger, Franz Herzig, Karl-Uwe Heussner, Jutta Hofmann, Raymond Kontic, Tomáš Kyncl, Alexander Land, Jutta Lechterbeck, Hanns Hubert Leuschner, Hans W Linderholm, Mechthild Neyses-Eiden, Manfred Rösch, Andreas Rzepecki, Felix Walder, Julia Weidemüller, Thorsten Westphal, Andrea Seim
Throughout history, humans have relied on wood for constructions, tool production or as an energy source. How and to what extent these human activities have impacted plant abundance and composition over a long-term perspective is, however, not well known. To address this knowledge gap, we combined 44,239 precisely dated tree-ring samples from economically and ecologically important tree species (spruce, fir, pine, oak) from historical buildings, and pollen-based plant cover estimates using the REVEALS model from 169 records for a total of 34 1° × 1° grid cells for Central Europe...
February 25, 2024: Science of the Total Environment