Pre-industrial composition of woodlands and modern deforestation events in the southern part of the Western Carpathians

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F19%3A00504307" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/19:00504307 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00107217

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0295975" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0295975</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.10.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.10.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pre-industrial composition of woodlands and modern deforestation events in the southern part of the Western Carpathians

Original language description

The southern part of the Western Carpathians is relatively poorly investigated from the perspective of vegetation changes in the Late Holocene.We analysed two fen profiles (Kláťa and Pálenica) in the Slovenské rudohorieMts (Slovakia), aiming to reconstruct the regional vegetation composition before humans started to have a strong influence to determine the major developmental stages of the woodland vegetation and to date significant deforestation events. Both profiles exhibited small differences in their tree composition and its development. Pollen data indicate a prevalence of Fagus, Abies and Picea, with an admixture of Quercus, Ulmus, Fraxinus, Acer and Tilia in the oldest layers of both profiles. The abundance of spruce pollen was higher in the Pálenica fen, where fossilised stomata of spruce provide evidence of its local occurrence. The Kláťa fen, however, exhibited a lower abundance of spruce pollen and was locally more encroached by fir, as evidenced by its macrocopic remains. Young layers of both profiles showed signs of strong deforestation between ca 1530 and 1750 CE,which was indicated by a decrease in pollen of climax trees, an increase in pollen of grassland species and an increase in anthropogenic indicators. Such changes in the composition of pollen spectra clearly coincided with increased human pressure during the colonisationwaves since the 16th century and with the developmentof industry.

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/GA17-05696S" target="_blank" >GA17-05696S: Holocene development of temperate European biota: effects of climate, refugia and local factors tested by complex datasets of independent proxies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

ISSN

0034-6667

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

260

Issue of the periodical within the volume

jan 2019

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000454374000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85056235127