Short-Term Medieval Settlement Activities Irreversibly Changed Forest Soils and Vegetation in Central Europe

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/13:60978

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Short-Term Medieval Settlement Activities Irreversibly Changed Forest Soils and Vegetation in Central Europe

Original language description

In Europe, many contemporary forests are not continuous, but were established on former agricultural land in territories of deserted villages. We aimed to explore whether medieval settlement activities of only 60 years irreversibly changed soil properties and whether these changes were reflected by contemporary forest vegetation. The research was performed in the deserted village of Krˇi´, which existed from 1357 to ca 1420 AD in a current oak forest on sandy soils in the Czech Republic. We identified four former land-use types (building sites, courtyards, the village square, and gardens), where we analyzed soil properties and plant species composition of the forest understory. Higher concentrations of plant-available P, K, Ca, and Mg as well as the total concentrations of organic C and trace elements (As, Cd, Cu, and Zn) were recorded at former building sites with neutral soils, compared to the other former land-use types with acidic soils. The four-times higher species richness

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP505%2F12%2F1390" target="_blank" >GAP505/12/1390: Biology of hemiparasitic Rhinanthoid Orobanchaceae: scaling up from physiology to community level processes</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

ECOSYSTEMS

ISSN

1432-9840

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

652-663

UT code for WoS article

000318998500010

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