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The arrival of the human being in the islands caused a gradual alteration of the plant cover. Initially, changes started slowly, because the aboriginal population was relatively scarce and lacked metal tools for massive felling. But changes in the vegetation accelerated after the Castilian conquest, which brought a major population increase, better tools, a greater demand for land and wood, and new large livestock farm animals with their intensive plant consumption.
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del Arco Aguilar, M.J., Rodríguez Delgado, O. (2018). Changes in the Natural Landscape Through Human Influence. In: Vegetation of the Canary Islands. Plant and Vegetation, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77255-4_7
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