Post by adzebill on Jan 3, 2012 17:19:29 GMT 1
Fossil pollen from a probably endemic species of Carpinus has been found in Tenerife; this tree was extinct about the end of the XVth century.
Also found was pollen from a Quercus species wich disappeared about the same time, but only could be identified at a generic level, maybe was another endemic species or a population of a mainland one (the possibility of being Quercus canariensis is sugestive, but not certain).
Source:
The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Lea de Nascimento, Katherine J. Willis, José María Fernández-Palacios, Constantino Criado and Robert J. Whittaker
Journal of Biogeography (2009) 36
webpages.ull.es/users/jmferpal/JBiogeography2009.pdf
Also found was pollen from a Quercus species wich disappeared about the same time, but only could be identified at a generic level, maybe was another endemic species or a population of a mainland one (the possibility of being Quercus canariensis is sugestive, but not certain).
Source:
The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Lea de Nascimento, Katherine J. Willis, José María Fernández-Palacios, Constantino Criado and Robert J. Whittaker
Journal of Biogeography (2009) 36
webpages.ull.es/users/jmferpal/JBiogeography2009.pdf
