Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity
abstract: Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. This is particularly the case over the last 6,000 years when intensi...
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ftarizonastateun:item:44350 2023-05-15T16:16:17+02:00 Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity Trant, Andrew J. (Author) Nijland, Wiebe (Author) Hoffman, Kira M. (Author) Mathews, Darcy L. (Author) McLaren, Duncan (Author) Nelson, Trisalyn (ASU author) Starzomski, Brian M. (Author) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning 2016-08-30 8 pages https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12491 http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44350 eng eng NATURE COMMUNICATIONS doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 ISSN: 2041-1723 Trant, A. J., Nijland, W., Hoffman, K. M., Mathews, D. L., Mclaren, D., Nelson, T. A., & Starzomski, B. M. (2016). Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications, 7, 12491. doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44350 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Text 2016 ftarizonastateun https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12491 2018-06-30T22:52:53Z abstract: Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. This is particularly the case over the last 6,000 years when intensified intertidal shellfish usage resulted in the accumulation of substantial shell middens. We show that soils at habitation sites are higher in calcium and phosphorous. Both of these are limiting factors in coastal temperate rainforests. Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) trees growing on the middens were found to be taller, have higher wood calcium, greater radial growth and exhibit less top die-back. Coastal British Columbia is the first known example of long-term intertidal resource use enhancing forest productivity and we expect this pattern to occur at archaeological sites along coastlines globally. The final version of this article, as published in Nature Communications, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12491 Text First Nations Arizona State University: ASU Digital Repository Nature Communications 7 1 |
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abstract: Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. This is particularly the case over the last 6,000 years when intensified intertidal shellfish usage resulted in the accumulation of substantial shell middens. We show that soils at habitation sites are higher in calcium and phosphorous. Both of these are limiting factors in coastal temperate rainforests. Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) trees growing on the middens were found to be taller, have higher wood calcium, greater radial growth and exhibit less top die-back. Coastal British Columbia is the first known example of long-term intertidal resource use enhancing forest productivity and we expect this pattern to occur at archaeological sites along coastlines globally. The final version of this article, as published in Nature Communications, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12491 |
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Trant, Andrew J. (Author) Nijland, Wiebe (Author) Hoffman, Kira M. (Author) Mathews, Darcy L. (Author) McLaren, Duncan (Author) Nelson, Trisalyn (ASU author) Starzomski, Brian M. (Author) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning |
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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 ISSN: 2041-1723 Trant, A. J., Nijland, W., Hoffman, K. M., Mathews, D. L., Mclaren, D., Nelson, T. A., & Starzomski, B. M. (2016). Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications, 7, 12491. doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44350 |
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