<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Djamali, Morteza</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gambin, Belinda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marriner, Nick</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrieu-Ponel, Valérie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gambin, Timmy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gandouin, Emmanuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lanfranco, Sandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Médail, Frédéric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pavon, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ponel, Philippe</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morhange, Christophe</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vegetation dynamics during the early to mid-Holocene transition in NW Malta, human impact versus climatic forcing</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vegetation History and Archaeobotany</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evergreen Pistacia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monsoon intensiﬁcation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neolithic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollen analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Temple cultural phase</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s00334-012-0380-0</style></url></web-urls></urls><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0033401203800</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A pollen diagram was constructed for the earlyto mid-Holocene transition (ca. 7350–5600 cal. B.P./5400– 3650 B.C.) from the Burmarrad ria located in NW Malta. The vegetation at ca. 7350–6960 cal. B.P./5400–5010 B.C. was characterized by an almost tree-less steppe-like open landscape. Early Holocene dry climatic conditions were most probably due to intensiﬁcation of the subtropical monsoon circulation that strengthened the subtropical anticyclonic descent over the central Mediterranean and blocked the penetration of humid air masses from the North Atlantic Ocean. At ca. 6950 cal. B.P./5000 B.C., the steppe-like vegetation was suddenly replaced by a Mediterranean evergreen forest or dense scrub dominated by Pistacia cf. lentiscus trees. This event, which has simultaneously been recorded in southern Sicily, was most probably caused by the southward shift of the ITCZ permitting the eastward movement of the North Atlantic cyclonic systems. Traces of human activities are evident in the pollen diagram since the beginning of the record but become more pronounced from the onset of the Temple Cultural Phase at ca. 6050 cal. B.P./4100 B.C. with a gradual decline of tree pollen. We suggest that the early- to mid-Holocene vegetation transformation was mainly controlled by a regional climatic change that occurred in a landscape only slightly impacted by human activities.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benslama, Mohamed</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrieu-Ponel, Valérie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guiter, Frédéric</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reille, Maurice</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Beaulieu, Jacques-Louis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Migliore, Jérémy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Djamali, Morteza</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollen analysis from two littoral marshes (Bourdim and Garaat El-Ouez) in the El-Kala wet complex (North-East Algeria). Lateglacial and Holocene history of Algerian vegetation.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comptes rendus biologies</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Afrique du Nord</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Analyse pollinique</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cedrus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Histoire de la végétation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Refuges</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20965444</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">333</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">744 - 754</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The study of two pollen sequences from El-Kala marshes allowed the reconstruction of the regional vegetation history supported by eight radiocarbon dates. Pollen assemblages from Bourdim site were dominated by local input of Alnus and Salix, while regional vegetation was characterized by scattered Quercus suber forests with a well-developed Erica arborea matorral. While the vegetation dynamics recorded at Bourdim is recent (Late Holocene), the majority of the pollen diagram from Garaat El-Ouez is contemporaneous to the Late Pleniglacial and is characterized by open woodlands with Pinus, Poaceae and several heliophilous herbs. The significant values of Cedrus pollen identified in this period indicate that the region of El-Kala most probably played the role of a refugium for this tree.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;accession-num: 20965444</style></notes></record></records></xml>