BAL Marie
She is a geographer at the GEODE laboratory and at the University of Limoges. Her research focuses on the ancientness of pastoral highlands built in relation to human practices using fire and confronted with climatic conditions during the Holocene period. She is also developing transdisciplinary research on current prescribed burns. Her spatial study scale corresponds to the southern European mountains area.
Website: geode.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/personnel/marie-claude-bal#/
Keys publications
CATENA
Bal M.Cl, Alessandra Benatti, Giovanna Bosi, Assunta Florenzano, Salvia Garcia-Álvarez, Anna Maria Mercuri, Juan Manuel Rubiales,Pedoanthracology sheds light the ancientness of the pastoral highlands of three mediterranean mountain: Sierra de Gredos (Spain), southeast Massif Central (France), and northern Apennines (Italy), CATENA, Volume 223, 2023, 106941, ISSN 0341-8162, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.106941.
Quaternary International
Bal M.Cl. And Salvia Garcia-Alvarez (2022) – Inferring the ancientness of the Mirambel woodland from soil charcoal: A local exception to the regional pattern of the Millevaches plateau (Limousin, Massif central, France). Quaternary International.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.008
The Holocene
Benatti A., Bal M.Cl., Allée Ph., Bosi G., Mercuri A.M. – (2019) Plant landscape reconstruction above the current timberline at the Monte Cimone and Corno alle Scale mountain areas (Northern Apennines, Italy) during the Late Holocene: The evidence from soil charcoal. The Holocene, vol. 29, 11: pp. 1767-1781.
Quaternary International,
García-Álvarez, S., Bal, M.Cl., Allée, Ph., García-Amorena, I., Rubiales, J.M. – (2017) – Holocene treeline history in a cultural landscape inferred from soil charcoal: the case of Sierra de Gredos (Iberian Central System, SW Europe). Quaternary International, vol. 457, pp 85-98
The Quaternary International
Bal M.Cl., Allée, Ph. and M. Liard – (2015) – Charcoal from soil: the origin of Nardus stricta grassland and the history of a mountain cultural landscape (Mont Lozère, France) since the Neolithic period. The Quaternary International, vol. 366, pp. 3-14.
