Well-hidden forests? Modern pollen spectra from Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) contribute to the interpretation of the last glacial vegetation in Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11620/23:10477312 RIV/00025798:_____/23:10168821

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Qi8ptJf7mn" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Qi8ptJf7mn</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-023-09435-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12224-023-09435-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Well-hidden forests? Modern pollen spectra from Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) contribute to the interpretation of the last glacial vegetation in Central Europe

Original language description

The landscape of central Europe is thought to have been dominated by steppe, forest-steppe, or tundra during the Last Glacial. This classical view is mostly based on the pollen records. However, as the pollen production and taphonomy during the cold periods are largely unknown, modern analogies of past landscapes need to be involved to provide more plausible vegetation reconstructions. Here we performed pollen analyses of recent samples from small lakes in Yakutia, eastern Siberia, a cold region where larch taiga forest is maintained by water from cyclically melting permafrost. We compared the pollen samples using multivariate (PCA) and analogue matching techniques with 830 fossil pollen samples from central Europe dated to MIS3-MIS1 (ca 35,000-11,700 cal BP). We have shown that the non-arboreal pollen proportion is around 50% in the lakes within Yakutian forested landscape, while such proportions have been interpreted as an indication of forestless landscape in European fossil records. Some central European fossil samples are more similar to samples from present-day Yakutia than to the South Siberian steppes so far considered analogous; this is especially true for samples from areas on unconsolidated bedrock with water-saturated permafrost from the Late Glacial, Bolling-Allerod interstadials. We advocate the idea of extending existing interpretations of past landscapes. The fossil pollen might not only reflect steppe-tundra vegetation, but, in addition to that, at least the Late Glacial pollen samples from central Europe may reflect a landscape forested by &apos;invisible&apos; larch with spatially limited steppe patches, like the one found in present-day Yakutia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10700 - Other natural sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK21010335" target="_blank" >QK21010335: The potential how to employ European larch in the Czech forests under GCC</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Folia Geobotanica

ISSN

1211-9520

e-ISSN

1874-9348

Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

89-107

UT code for WoS article

001091490500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85174298154