Middle- and upper-Holocene woodland history in central Moravia (Czech Republic) reveals biases of pollen and anthracological analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985912:_____/17:00477980 RIV/67985939:_____/17:00477980 RIV/00216224:14310/17:00096286 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10368226 RIV/61989592:15310/17:73583902

Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683616660166" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683616660166</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616660166" target="_blank" >10.1177/0959683616660166</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Middle- and upper-Holocene woodland history in central Moravia (Czech Republic) reveals biases of pollen and anthracological analysis

Original language description

The aims of this article are, first, to investigate the middle- and upper-Holocene woodland history along the altitudinal gradient between the lowlands and uplands of Central Europe (190-550m a.s.l.) and, second, to outline possible biases inherent in the charcoal record based on a comparison with the pollen record and its known biases. Our anthracological data set contains 42,547 determinations made in 120 charcoal samples taken at 69 sites. The lowest elevated part of the study region (below 200m a.s.l.) is characterized by the long-term presence of a species-rich hardwood forest (mixed oak-elm-ash forest). Quercus charcoals dominated in the rest of the altitude zones during the Neolithic and Aeneolithic; however, shrub charcoals appearing in samples from areas with chernozem soils (generally up to 230m a.s.l.) indicate open-canopy oak woodlands. The species composition differed along the altitudinal gradient during the Bronze Age period, when Carpinus, Fagus and Abies expanded to altitudes above 230m a.s.l., while Fagus was more abundant above 290m a.s.l. Broadleaved trees (Quercus, Fraxinus, Ulmus, Acer and Carpinus) and shrubs are generally more represented in charcoals than pollen. Since broadleaved trees are usually nutrient demanding and able to re-grow easily after being felled, we suppose that their charcoal record is influenced by two main factors: bias of the initial location of the archaeological site and bias caused by long-term human influence on forest vegetation in the vicinity of settlements. These results underline that combining charcoal and pollen analysis has great potential for studying phenomena in cultural landscapes, as each of the methods approaches nature from the opposite side of the human-nature gradient.

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-11193S" target="_blank" >GA13-11193S: Holocene environmental dynamics in the Hornomoravský úval region: Key processes inducing the formation of recent landscape mosaic.</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Holocene

ISSN

0959-6836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

349-360

UT code for WoS article

000395385500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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