A complex insight into the Late Quaternary history of Bohemian‑Moravian Highlands summit
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00134308" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134308 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-023-09436-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-023-09436-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-023-09436-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12224-023-09436-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A complex insight into the Late Quaternary history of Bohemian‑Moravian Highlands summit
Original language description
Peat is an important archive allowing the reconstruction of past mire environments and surrounding vegetation. The Pihoviny site, one of the oldest peat deposits in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, was analysed for macrofossils and pollen and compared with other profles in the region. The local mire development started in the Late Glacial as sedge-moss quaking fen with tundra elements characterised by high mineral richness and groundwater level. During the Early Holocene, it developed through the rich fen with hummocks, willow and reed stage to the waterlogged spruce forest, which persisted for thousands of years until the post-mediaeval deforestation. The recent mire vegetation developed 300 years ago due to human-induced deforestation. Further, we revealed high regional synchronicity among pollen profles in the Early-Holocene (10,000– 9000 cal BP), when open-canopy pine-birch forests transformed into closed-canopy deciduous forests due to climate improvement. Contrary, the LateHolocene transformation to beech-fr forests was not synchronous, suggesting another driver than climate, likely human activities. Although pollen of both latesuccessional trees occurred since the Early Holocene, their expansion began much later, 5500–3500 (beech) and 3500–2500 cal BP (fr). Numerous spruce macrofossils suggest its pollen’s local origin in the waterlogged spruce forest. Our results support the need for active management to sustain open mire vegetation and prevent spontaneous forest regrowth, recently boosted by climate warming. Palaeoecological analyses reconstructed a mosaic of waterlogged spruce and terrestrial beech-fr forests in the landscape, which should be restored to increase forest resistance against bark-beetle breakdowns and other disturbances in future.
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
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
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
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
127-150
UT code for WoS article
001111854500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85178249479