Lowland pine forests in the northwestern Pannonian Basin: between natural vegetation and modern plantations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F19%3A00520229" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/19:00520229 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11620/19:10409786 RIV/00216224:14310/19:00113423 RIV/00216208:11310/19:10409786 RIV/61989592:15310/19:73596625 RIV/00027073:_____/19:N0000104
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0304925" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0304925</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01555-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10113-019-01555-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lowland pine forests in the northwestern Pannonian Basin: between natural vegetation and modern plantations
Original language description
Lowland Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests cover extensive areas in Central Europe. Most of them are considered to be the results of relatively recent plantation-oriented forest management. We investigated the long-term history of lowland pine forests in the Záhorská Lowland region of aeolian sands in the northern margin of the Pannonian Basin. Pine monocultures were planted there already in the mid-seventeenth century and currently prevail in the land cover of the region. Our aim was to challenge the commonly accepted idea that the present pine-dominated forests lack connections to pre-plantation pine forests of the Early Holocene. Using multi-proxy data, we compared palaeoeocological data with archaeobotanical data, anthracological finds and evidence on past human settlement. Palaeoecological results suggested a distinct compositional linkage of recent pine-dominated forests with their Early Holocene predecessors. Moreover, no significant change was detected in tree dominants in at least the past two millennia. Contrary to palaeoecology, archeaeobotany suggested that broadleaved trees (mostly oak) dominated during the past 4000 years. However, this result is probably strongly biased by human preferences for wood for specific purposes. On the other hand, pine in palaeoecological data is doubtless overrepresented because of its abundant pollen production. We conclude that pine forests with a significant admixture of oak continuously covered the sandy substrates of the Záhorská Lowland throughout the Holocene. The present pine forests can therefore be considered fairly close to the original vegetation of the study region.
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
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-07851S" target="_blank" >GA17-07851S: Late Holocene retrogression of forest ecosystems: Causes, processes and consequences for biodiversity</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Regional Environmental Change
ISSN
1436-3798
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
2395-2409
UT code for WoS article
000511753200019
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85072108506