TY  - JOUR
AU  - Finsinger, Walter
AU  - Morales-Molino, Cesar
AU  - Gałka, Mariusz
AU  - Valsecchi, Verushka
AU  - Bojović, Srđan
AU  - Tinner, Willy
PY  - 2017
UR  - http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379117301750
UR  - https://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2751
AB  - We analysed sediments from Crveni Potok (Tara Mountains, Serbia), a key site in the Dinaric Alps because it is located within the restricted distribution range of the endemic conifer Picea omorika (Serbian spruce), and thereby bears a unique potential in revealing its Holocene history. We used a set of proxies (pollen, plant-macrofossils, charcoal) to reconstruct the long-term vegetation and fire histories at different spatial scales. The comprehensive snapshot provided by the reconstructions fill an important gap of European long-term vegetation and fire histories in the overall data-coverage poor region of the Dinaric Alps. The reconstructions unfolded an unusual late-Holocene persistence of high forest cover that contrasts with the large majority of European landscape-scale forest-cover records, which show massive anthropogenic openings in the past two millennia. We also found evidence for good post-fire recovery of the currently threatened endemic P. omorika populations. This leads us to suggest that prescribed-burning programmes may be beneficial to reduce the vulnerability of the species, and for ecological restoration and conservation purposes of the declining and endangered populations.
T2  - Quaternary Science Reviews
T1  - Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia)
VL  - 167
DO  - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.032
SP  - 63
EP  - 77
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Finsinger, Walter and Morales-Molino, Cesar and Gałka, Mariusz and Valsecchi, Verushka and Bojović, Srđan and Tinner, Willy",
year = "2017",
abstract = "We analysed sediments from Crveni Potok (Tara Mountains, Serbia), a key site in the Dinaric Alps because it is located within the restricted distribution range of the endemic conifer Picea omorika (Serbian spruce), and thereby bears a unique potential in revealing its Holocene history. We used a set of proxies (pollen, plant-macrofossils, charcoal) to reconstruct the long-term vegetation and fire histories at different spatial scales. The comprehensive snapshot provided by the reconstructions fill an important gap of European long-term vegetation and fire histories in the overall data-coverage poor region of the Dinaric Alps. The reconstructions unfolded an unusual late-Holocene persistence of high forest cover that contrasts with the large majority of European landscape-scale forest-cover records, which show massive anthropogenic openings in the past two millennia. We also found evidence for good post-fire recovery of the currently threatened endemic P. omorika populations. This leads us to suggest that prescribed-burning programmes may be beneficial to reduce the vulnerability of the species, and for ecological restoration and conservation purposes of the declining and endangered populations.",
journal = "Quaternary Science Reviews",
title = "Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia)",
volume = "167",
doi = "10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.032",
pages = "63-77"
}

Finsinger, W., Morales-Molino, C., Gałka, M., Valsecchi, V., Bojović, S.,& Tinner, W.. (2017). Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia). in Quaternary Science Reviews, 167, 63-77.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.032

Finsinger W, Morales-Molino C, Gałka M, Valsecchi V, Bojović S, Tinner W. Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia). in Quaternary Science Reviews. 2017;167:63-77.
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.032 .

Finsinger, Walter, Morales-Molino, Cesar, Gałka, Mariusz, Valsecchi, Verushka, Bojović, Srđan, Tinner, Willy, "Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia)" in Quaternary Science Reviews, 167 (2017):63-77,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.032 . .