植物和动物的季节性周期驱动着农业系统中人类实践的关键时机,比如收获的最佳时间,种植,或修剪。在历史物候研究的框架内,我们尝试重建千年来的橄榄(OleaeuropaeaL.)物候。由于其非凡的长寿,橄榄树是过去的活生生的代表,体现了对生态行为的长期记忆。一个文化基石物种,油橄榄种植在生物多样性保护中发挥着越来越重要的作用,农村社区的生计及其在整个地中海地区根深蒂固的文化身份。通过从历史书面来源和口头传统中汇编传统物候知识,并将其用作人类生态实践与植物行为的季节性变化之间联系的历史生物指标,我们编制了覆盖过去2800年的橄榄树每月生态日历。作为一个案例研究,我们选择了一个特别的地方:西西里,它在地中海的独特地位,跨时空积累的生态文化形式的地貌和遗产。这样一个独特的生态日历提供了一个额外的案例研究,以探索植物行为和人类适应策略的交织以及文化多样性之间的相互作用。生态扰动和物候稳定性。所有这一切,反过来,可以为这些千年树木的当前和未来可持续管理提供信息。
Seasonal cycles in plants and animals drive key timings of human practices in an agrosystem like the best time for harvest, planting, or pruning. Within the framework of historical phenological studies, we attempt a reconstruction of the olive (Olea europaea L.) phenology along millennia. Thanks to its extraordinary longevity, the olive tree is a living proxy from the past and embodies a still uncollected long-term memory of ecological behaviors. A cultural keystone species, olive cultivation has more and more played a crucial role for biodiversity conservation, livelihood of rural communities and their enrooted cultural identity in the whole Mediterranean. By compiling traditional phenological knowledge from historical written sources and oral traditions, and using it as historical bio-indicator of the linkage between human ecological practices and seasonal changes of plant behavior, we compiled a monthly ecological calendar of the olive tree covering the last ∼2800 years. As a
case study, we chose a special place:
Sicily, unique for its position in the Mediterranean, geomorphology and legacies in the form of cross-temporal accumulated eco-cultures. Such a sui generis ecological calendar provides an additional
case study to explore the intertwining of plant behavior and human adaptation strategies and the interplay between cultural diversity, ecological disturbance and phenological stability. All of this, in turn, can inform action for the present and future sustainable management of these millennial trees.