Historic and contemporary anthropogenic effects on granulometry and species composition detected from sediment cores and death assemblages, Nelson Bays, Aotearoa-New Zealand
Handley SJ, Swales A, Horrocks M, Gibbs M, Carter M, Ovenden R and Stead J (2020)
Continental Shelf Research 202, 104147
Highlights
We attempted to disentangle effects of sedimentation and fishing historically.
Māori and European palynomorphs constrained core geochronologies.
Māori-introduced cultigen artefacts were discovered – a marine first.
Fishing disturbance accounted for greatest variation in modern assemblages.
Keywords
Aotearoa New Zealand, palaeoecology, fishing disturbance, ecological baseline, anthropogenic
