Reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation in the central Negev Desert, Israel, on the basis of palynological data on the Atzmaut zoogenic deposit

A. N. Babenko; N. K. Kiseleva; I. Plakht; S. Rosen; A. B. Savinetskii; B. F. Khasanov

doi:10.1134/S1067413607060033

Reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation in the central Negev Desert, Israel, on the basis of palynological data on the Atzmaut zoogenic deposit

A. N. Babenko, N. K. Kiseleva, I. Plakht, S. Rosen, A. B. Savinetskii, B. F. Khasanov

Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East

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Abstract

Zoogenic deposits are among a few promising sources of information on the history of arid ecosystems. To reconstruct the former vegetation of the Negev Desert, we performed palynological analysis of the Atzmaut zoogenic deposit that had been formed over the past 6000 years. The results made it possible to reveal seasonality in the use of this rockshelter, to reconstruct the dynamics of vegetation, and to estimate the effect of climatic changes and livestock grazing on the vegetation in the central part of the Negev Desert.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	388-397
Number of pages	10
Journal	Russian Journal of Ecology
Volume	38
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413607060033
State	Published - 1 Nov 2007

Keywords

Israel
Palynological analysis
The Holocene
Zoogenic deposits

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation in the central Negev Desert, Israel, on the basis of palynological data on the Atzmaut zoogenic deposit

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