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dc.contributor.authorBirks, Hilary H.eng
dc.contributor.authorBirks, Harry John Betteleyeng
dc.contributor.authorAppleby, P. G.eng
dc.contributor.authorFathi, Adel A.eng
dc.contributor.authorFlower, Roger J.eng
dc.contributor.authorKraïem, Mohammed M.eng
dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Simon T.eng
dc.contributor.authorRamdani, Mohammedeng
dc.date.accessioned2007-12-20T10:02:32Z
dc.date.available2007-12-20T10:02:32Z
dc.date.issued2001eng
dc.PublishedAquatic Ecology 2001 35 (3/4): 431–448en
dc.identifier.issn1386-2588en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/2514
dc.description.abstractPollen analyses and related plant macrofossil records are presented from short cores from nine North African lakes in the EU-funded CASSARINA project. Terrestrial pollen reflects human impact on the vegetation and landscape over the last 150–100 years. Pollen changes, aided by radiometric dating, could be correlated with historical developments. The chronology of the landscape changes date other biostratigraphical records reflecting changes in the aquatic ecosystems. Three lakes in Morocco show gradually intensifying land-use over the last century. Accelerated technological development and landscape modification over the last 20 years culminated in one of the lakes being drained and cultivated during the project period. In Tunisia, a nationally unique acid-water lake is threatened by water withdrawal for increased catchment cultivation. The landscape around two other lakes is being increasingly cultivated and urbanised, and water withdrawal to support this has resulted in deleterious effects on the aquatic ecosystems, particularly at the internationally famous Garaet El Ichkeul where reed-marshes and macrophyte beds have been lost. The three lakes in the Egyptian Nile Delta are in the same hydrological system and show parallel changes in the balance between saltmarsh and reed-marsh. Control of Nile floods and year-round irrigation led to marked increases in cultivation in the delta region since ca. 1920. The Aswan High Dam (1964) had little detectable further effect. Documented planting of dates, palms, and olives and of introduced Casuarina and Eucalyptus trees provided a chronology to supplement the unsatisfactory radiometric dating of the sediments in this low-rainfall area.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.subjectCASSARINA Projecteng
dc.subjectEgypteng
dc.subjecthuman impacteng
dc.subjectMoroccoeng
dc.subjectpollen analysiseng
dc.subjectTunisiaeng
dc.titleTerrestrial pollen record of recent land-use changes around nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Projecten_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011988127627
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480nob


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