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Quaternary, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2023 - 13 articles

Cover Story: Wild grapevine populations are quite limited mainly due to habitat destruction, land-use change, and the spread of pathogens that have reduced their distribution range. Nowadays, populations are concentrated in forests and wetland habitats with low anthropogenic disturbances. The River Crati Natural Reserve, in southern Italy, is a protected area hosting a population of Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris in a rewilding wet forest. The paper aims at characterising the wild grapevine population of the reserve by describing the age structure of natural populations, growth trends, pollen morphology, and the morphometric traits of male or female flowers. Palaeoecological perspectives must be incorporated in the modern vision of landscape management to improve the conservation strategies for relic grapevine populations. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,108 Views
36 Pages

Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura

  • Flavia Venditti,
  • Madison J. McCartin,
  • Melanie-Larisa Ostermann,
  • Nicholas J. Conard and
  • Sibylle Wolf

21 September 2023

Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic, providing insights into intangible aspects of human cultural behavior. Some ornament forms are better studied than ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,753 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2023

Diatom assemblages in mud volcanoes are quite rare and are poorly studied. The finding of a rich diatom flora in the sediments of the Daginsky Mud Volcano (DMV), located in the tidal zone of the Nyisky Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk, is of interest to stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,198 Views
18 Pages

Air Temperature Change at the End of the Late Holocene and in the Anthropocene in the Middle Volga Region, European Russia

  • Yuri P. Perevedentsev,
  • Konstantin M. Shantalinsky,
  • Artyom V. Gusarov,
  • Nadezhda A. Mirsaeva,
  • Timur R. Aukhadeev and
  • Alexander A. Nikolaev

1 September 2023

The temporal variability of air temperature in the Middle Volga region from 1828 to 2021 is considered according to instrumental observations at the oldest meteorological station in the east of the East European Plain (Kazan University) and throughou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,704 Views
27 Pages

1 September 2023

The rates of incision and aggradation in the channels in the Terek River basin (North Caucasus) for the last 50–85 years were estimated at 18 gauging stations. The stage–discharge method (annual low water stages at the same discharges) wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
18,007 Views
20 Pages

24 August 2023

This paper examines the hypothesis that changes in hunting weapons during the Paleolithic were a direct response to a progressive decline in prey size. The study builds upon a unified hypothesis that explains Paleolithic human evolutionary and behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,367 Views
20 Pages

Palynology of Gardens and Archaeobotany for the Environmental Reconstruction of the Charterhouse of Calci-Pisa in Tuscany (Central Italy)

  • Gabriele Gattiglia,
  • Eleonora Rattighieri,
  • Eleonora Clò,
  • Francesca Anichini,
  • Antonio Campus,
  • Marta Rossi,
  • Mauro Buonincontri and
  • Anna Maria Mercuri

8 August 2023

In central Italy, the Charterhouse of Calci hosts the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa. This monumental monastery was founded in 1366 by Carthusian monks. The Charterhouse has experienced various transformations over the centuries, un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,540 Views
20 Pages

7 August 2023

We present a record of pollen and spores of coprophilous fungi from a sediment core from Auel infilled maar, Eifel, Germany, covering the period from 42,000 to 36,000 yr b2k. We can show that vegetation cover was dominated by a boreal forest with com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,269 Views
15 Pages

A Multidisciplinary Study of Wild Grapevines in the River Crati Natural Reserve, South Italy (Calabria): Implications in Conservation Biology and Palaeoecological Reconstructions

  • Eleonora Clò,
  • Paola Torri,
  • Michele Baliva,
  • Agostino Brusco,
  • Roberto Marchianò,
  • Elisabetta Sgarbi,
  • Jordan Palli,
  • Anna Maria Mercuri,
  • Gianluca Piovesan and
  • Assunta Florenzano

7 August 2023

Nowadays, wild grapevine populations are quite limited and sporadic mainly due to habitat destruction, land-use change, and the spread of pathogens that have reduced their distribution range. Palaeoecological, archaeobotanical, and genetic studies in...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,761 Views
9 Pages

18 July 2023

This essay is a personal insight based on my own experience in the Iberian Pyrenees, which addresses three situations common in paleoecological research, such as the verification of previously devised hypotheses (anticipation), the finding on unknown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,874 Views
14 Pages

New Perspectives on the Quaternary Paleogeography of Coastal Ecuador and Its Relationships with Climate Change

  • María Quiñónez-Macías,
  • Kervin Chunga,
  • Theofilos Toulkeridis,
  • Alvaro Mora-Mendoza and
  • Angelo Constantine

13 July 2023

Well-preserved Quaternary sedimentary sequences in the central coast of Ecuador have provided sufficient relevant information for paleogeographic reconstruction and climatic evolution, from stratigraphic, geochemical, and biological analysis. The Jar...

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