Detecting ecological signatures of long-term human activity across an elevational gradient in the Šumava Mountains, Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/24:10494812 RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138441
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108944" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108944</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Detecting ecological signatures of long-term human activity across an elevational gradient in the Šumava Mountains, Central Europe
Original language description
Central European mountains, including the Šumava Mountains located along the Czechia/Germany border, have a long and rich anthropogenic history. Yet, documenting prehistoric human impact in Central European mountain environments remains a challenge because of the need to disentangle climate and human-caused responses in terrestrial systems. Here, we present the first reconstructed water table depths (WTDs) from two sites, Pěkná and Blatenská slať, located in the Šumava Mountains. We compare these local WTD records with new and published pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs), plant macrofossils, geochemistry and archeological records to investigate how changes in local hydrology and human activities impacted forest succession and fire activity throughout the Holocene across an elevational gradient. Using a generalized additive model, our results suggest that changes in forest succession and fire activity have been primarily caused by climate throughout the Holocene. However, humans have been utilizing mountain environments and their resources continuously since ∼4600 cal yr BP, thus playing a secondary role in modifying forest succession to increase resources beneficial to both humans and grazers. Over the last 1000 years, we provide evidence of directly observed human-caused modifications to the landscape. These results contribute to a growing body of literature illustrating human activities and landscape modifications in Central European mountains.
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
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN
0277-3791
e-ISSN
1873-457X
Volume of the periodical
344
Issue of the periodical within the volume
15 November
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
108944
UT code for WoS article
001386711700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204038572