The precision land knowledge of the past enables tailor-made environment therapy and empathy for nature
Malhi, Y. et al. Climate change and ecosystems: Threats, opportunities and solutions. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 375, 20190104 (2020).
Google Scholar
Hodel, F. H., Behr, D. M., Cozzi, G. & Ozgul, A. A hierarchical approach for estimating state-specific mortality and state transition in dispersing animals with incomplete death records. Methods Ecol. Evol. 14, 1074–1091 (2023).
Google Scholar
Pearce, E. A. et al. Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before homo sapiens. Sci. Adv. 9, eadi9135 (2023).
Google Scholar
Githumbi, E. et al. European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the holocene: Methodology, mapping and potentials. Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 14, 1581–1619 (2022).
Google Scholar
Serge, M. A. et al. Testing the effect of relative pollen productivity on the REVEALS model: A validated reconstruction of Europe-Wide holocene vegetation. Land 12, 986 (2023).
Google Scholar
Froyd, C. A. & Willis, K. J. Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective. Quat. Sci. Rev. 27, 1723–1732 (2008).
Google Scholar
Stephens, L. et al. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365, 897–902 (2019).
Google Scholar
Morrison, K. D. et al. Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLoS ONE. 16, e0246662 (2021).
Google Scholar
de Vareilles, A., Pelling, R., Woodbridge, J. & Fyfe, R. Archaeology and agriculture: Plants, people, and past land-use. TREE 36, P943–954 (2021).
Mercuri, A. M. et al. BRAIN—Holocene archaeo-data for assessing plant-cultural diversity in Italy and other mediterranean regions. Sci. Data. 11, 520 (2024).
Google Scholar
Steffen, W. et al. The emergence and evolution of Earth system science. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 1, 54–63 (2020).
Google Scholar
Capotondi, L. et al. Using the past to envisage a better future: The approach of a quaternary scientist. Alp. Mediterr. Quat. 34, 257–275 (2021).
McNeely, J. A. & Nature COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead. Ambio 50, 767–781 (2021).
Google Scholar
Gibbard, P. et al. The anthropocene as an event, not an epoch. J. Quat. Sci. 37, 395–399 (2022).
Google Scholar
Few, R., Morchain, D., Spear, D., Mensah, A. & Bendapudi, R. Transformation, adaptation and development: Relating concepts to practice. Palgrave Commun. 3, 17092 (2017).
Google Scholar
Malhi, Y. The concept of the anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 42, 77–104 (2017).
Google Scholar
Ellis, E. C. The anthropocene condition: Evolving through social–ecological transformations. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 379, 202202552024 (2024).
Google Scholar
Bjune, A. E., Grytnes, J. A., Jenks, C. R., Telford, R. J. & Vandvik, V. Is palaeoecology a ‘special branch’ of ecology? Holocene 25, 17–24 (2015).
Google Scholar
Birks, H. J. B., Birks, H. H. & Ammann, B. The fourth dimension of vegetation. Science 354, 412–413 (2016).
Google Scholar
Morley, M. W. et al. Why the geosciences are becoming increasingly vital to the interpretation of the human evolutionary record. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 7, 1971–1977 (2023).
Google Scholar
Mercuri, A. M., Florenzano, A. & Clò, E. Sustainability in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age through the lens of archaeobotany. In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability (Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). ISBN 978-3-031-01948-7. (2022).
Holling, C. S. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 4, 1–23 (1973).
Google Scholar
Luthar, S. S., Cicchetti, D. & Becker, B. The construct of resilience: A critical evaluation and guidelines for future work. Child. Dev. 71, 543–562 (2000).
Google Scholar
Folke, C. et al. Resilience thinking: Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecol. Soc. 15, 20 (2010).
Google Scholar
Boivin, N. L. et al. Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions. PNAS 113, 6388–6396 (2016).
Google Scholar
Whitlock, C., Colombaroli, D., Conedera, M. & Tinner, W. Land-use history as a guide for forest conservation and management. Conserv. Biol. 32, 84–97 (2017).
Google Scholar
Boivin, N. & Crowther, A. Mobilizing the past to shape a better anthropocene. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 5, 273–284 (2021).
Google Scholar
Roberts, P. et al. Uncovering the Multibiome environmental and Earth system legacies of past human societies. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 49, (2024). 23.1–23.30.
Arena, F., Gualdi-Russo, E., Olsen, J., Philippsen, B. & Mannino, M. A. New data on agro-pastoral diets in Southern Italy from the neolithic to the bronze age. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 12, 245 (2020).
Google Scholar
Foley, S. F. et al. The Palaeoanthropocene – The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change. Anthropocene 3, 83–88 (2013).
Google Scholar
López Sáez, J. A. et al. Vegetation history, climate and human impact in the Spanish central system over the last 9000 years. Quat. Int. 353, 98–122 (2014).
Google Scholar
Rick, T. et al. Human-environmental interactions in mediterranean climate regions from the pleistocene to the anthropocene. Anthropocene 31, 100253 (2020).
Google Scholar
Cremaschi, M. When did the anthropocene begin? A Geoarchaeological approach to Deciphering the consequences of human activity in pre-protohistoric times: Selected cases from the Po plain (northern Italy). Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei. 25, 101–112 (2014).
Google Scholar
Hooke, J. M. Human impacts on fluvial systems in the mediterranean region. Geomorphology 79, 311–335 (2006).
Google Scholar
Regattieri, E. et al. Holocene critical zone dynamics in an alpine catchment inferred from a speleothem multiproxy record: Disentangling climate and human influences. Sci. Rep. 9, 17829 (2019).
Google Scholar
Sadori, L., Aranbarri, J. & Masi, A. Pollen records, postglacial | Southern Europe. Ref. Module Earth Syst. Environ. (2023).
Mercuri, A. M. et al. From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP). Holocene 29, 830–846 (2019).
Google Scholar
Desjardins, S. P. A., Friesen, T. M. & Jordan, P. Looking back while moving forward: How past responses to climate change can inform future adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Arctic. Quat Int. 549, 239–248 (2020).
Google Scholar
Sugita, S. Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I: Pollen from large sites REVEALS regional vegetation 1210 composition. Holocene 17, 229–241 (2007).
Google Scholar
Sugita, S. Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation II: All you need is LOVE. Holocene 17, 243–257 (2007).
Google Scholar
Jacobson, G. L. & Bradshaw R.H.W. The selection of sites for paleovegetational studies. Quat. Res. (1981).
Saeed, R. F. et al. Targeted therapy and personalized medicine. Cancer Treat. Res. 185, 177–205 (2023).
Google Scholar
Hodson, R. Precision medicine. Nature 537, S49 (2016).
Google Scholar
Uffelmann, E. et al. Genome-wide association studies. Nat. Rev. Methods Primers. 1, 59 (2021).
Google Scholar
Vicente, A. M., Ballensiefen, W. & Jönsson, J. -I. How personalised medicine will transform healthcare by 2030: The icpermed vision. J. Transl. Med. 18, 180 (2020).
Google Scholar
Di Rita, F. et al. Holocene forest dynamics in central and Western mediterranean: Periodicity, spatio-temporal patterns and climate influence. Sci. Rep. 8, 8929 (2018).
Google Scholar
Cramer, W., Guiot, J. & Marini, K. MedECC – Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report (Union for the Mediterranean, Plan Bleu, UNEP/MAP, Marseille, France, (2020).
Regattieri, E. et al. Neolithic hydroclimatic change and water resources exploitation in the fertile crescent. Sci. Rep. 13, 45 (2023).
Google Scholar
Mensing, S. A. et al. Historical ecology reveals landscape transformation coincident with cultural development in central Italy since the Roman period. Sci. Rep. 8, 2138 (2018).
Google Scholar
Di Fabio, A. & Kenny, M. E. Connectedness to nature, personality traits and empathy from a sustainability perspective. Curr. Psychol. 40, 1095–1106 (2021).
Google Scholar
Zalasiewicz et al. What should the anthropocene mean? Nature 632, 980–984 (2024).
Google Scholar
Aime, M., Favole, A. & Remotti, F. Il Mondo Che Avrete. Virus, Antropocene, Rivoluzione (Torino, UTET De Agostini, 2020).
Crutzen, P. J. Geology of mankind. Nature 415, 23 (2002).
Google Scholar
Corlett, R. T. The anthropocene concept in ecology and conservation. Trends Ecol. Evol. 30, 36–41 (2015).
Google Scholar
Witze, A. Geologists reject the anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch – after 15 years of debate. Nature 627, 249–250 (2024).
Google Scholar
Treccani – https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/pro-2_(Sinonimi-e-Contrari)/?search=pro-%C2%B2%2F.
Etymonline – (n.3).
Ellis, E. C. & Ramankutty, N. Putting people in the map: Anthropogenic biomes of the world. Front. Ecol. Environ. 6, 439–447 (2008).
Google Scholar
Izdebski, A. et al. Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the mediterranean. Quat Sci. Rev. 136, 5–22 (2016).
Google Scholar
Chiotis, E. Climate Changes in the Holocene: Impacts and Human Adaptation (CRC, 2019).
Willis, K. J. & Birks, H. J. What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science 314, 1261–1265 (2006).
Google Scholar
Schork, N. J. Personalized medicine. Time for one-person trials. Nature 520, 609–611 (2015).
Google Scholar
Collecchia, G. Dalla medicina personalizzata Alla medicina Di precisione. IsF 41, 19–22 (2017).
Roden, D. M. et al. Development of a large-scale de-identified DNA biobank to enable personalized medicine. Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 84, 362–369 (2008).
Google Scholar
Schulte, D. Tailor-made and standardized therapy: Complementary tasks in behavior therapy a contrarian view. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry. 27, 119–126 (1996).
Google Scholar
Williams, N. M. & Baines, G. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development (Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (Australian National University, 1993).
Berkes, F., Colding, J. & Folke, C. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecol. Appl. 10, 1251–1262 (2000).
Google Scholar
Cremaschi, M. et al. Climate change versus land management in the Po plain (Northern Italy) during the bronze age: new insights from the VP/VG sequence of the Terramara Santa Rosa Di Poviglio. Quat Sci. Rev. 136, 153–172 (2016).
Google Scholar
Dimbleby, G. W. The Palynology of Archaeological Sites (Academic, 1985).
Moore, P. D., Webb, J. A. & Collins, M. E. Pollen Analysis 2nd edn (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1991).
Beug, H. J. Leitfaden Der Pollenbestimmung Für Mitteleuropa Und Angrenzende Gebiete (München, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2015).
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. An update of the angiosperm phylogeny group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 181, 1–20 (2016).
Google Scholar
The Plant List. Version 1.1. (2013). http://www.theplantlist.org/
Birks, H. J. B. et al. Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in quaternary palynology. Rev. Palaeobot Palynol. 319, 104989 (2023).
Google Scholar
Whittaker, R. H. Vegetation of the Siskiyou mountains, Oregon and California. Ecol. Monogr. 30, 279–338 (1960).
Google Scholar
Whittaker, R. H. Evolution and measurement of species diversity. Taxon 21, 213–251 (1972).
Google Scholar
Jaccard, P. Contribution Au problème de l’immigration post-glaciaire de La Flore alpine. Bull. De La. Société Vaudoise Des. Sci. Nat. 36, 87–130 (1900).
Legendre, P. & De Cáceres, M. Beta diversity as the variance of community data: Dissimilarity coefficients and partitioning. Ecol. Lett. 16, 951–963 (2013).
Google Scholar
Legendre, P. & Legendre, L. Numerical Ecology, 3rd English edition Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-0-444-53868-0. (2012).
R Core Team. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2024).
Dray, S. et al. adespatial: Multivariate Multiscale Spatial Analysis (2024).
Wickham, H. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Springer-Verlag New York, ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4. (2016).
link
