Small Human Population Drastic Impact, as Inferred From Multi-Proxies of a Temporary Carpathian Lake
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10445638" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10445638 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.856685" target="_blank" >10.3389/feart.2022.856685</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Small Human Population Drastic Impact, as Inferred From Multi-Proxies of a Temporary Carpathian Lake
Original language description
Over the last thousands of years, human impact led to significant changes in the landscape, with impacts on the environment and the functioning of the ecosystems. We assumed that even small human settlements developed around water bodies might have a substantial impact that surpasses the natural cycles of climate change in an area, especially linked to forest cutting. We have chosen a temporary lake in the Romanian Carpathians as temporary lakes are overlooked in paleoclimatic studies, although they have potential as hotspots for paleoenvironmental research studies. Zaton Lake has exposed riverbank sediments dated with radioactive lead and optical stimulated luminescence techniques, analyzed for sediments and paleomagnetism, and sampled for fossil Oribatida mites. The results show that for the last 2,200 years, natural cycles of warm and cold periods changed the oribatid communities around the lake, with warmer cycles of rich fauna alternating with poor fauna during colder periods. However, in the last few centuries, the increased human occupation in the area replaced the ecologically diverse fauna with eurytopic taxa, more similar to the colder periods of the environmental evolution around the lake. Even if the human occupation around the lake was negligible, probably a few hundred to approx. 2,500 people as in the present, the impact on the area is drastic, with ecologically nonspecific species becoming dominant. In conclusion, even small and temporary water bodies can contain unique and valuable information on past histories of climate change and human impacts. At regional scales, the combined effects of climate change and long-term human impacts in local areas can have deleterious effects on invertebrate species and communities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Earth Science [online]
ISSN
2296-6463
e-ISSN
2296-6463
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
856685
UT code for WoS article
000795555100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85130149659