Unusual vegetation stability in a lowland pine forest area (Doksy region, Czech Republic)

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Novák, J. - Sádlo, Jiří - Svobodová-Svitavská, Helena
Unusual vegetation stability in a lowland pine forest area (Doksy region, Czech Republic).
Holocene. Roč. 22, č. 8 (2012), s. 947-955. ISSN 0959-6836. E-ISSN 1477-0911
Grant CEP: GA AV ČR IAAX00050801
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985939
Klíčová slova: fire history * palaeoenvironment * pedoanthracology
Kód oboru RIV: EF - Botanika
Impakt faktor: 3.218, rok: 2012

Although the Holocene is characterized by prominent vegetation changes, some vegetation types can reveal surprising stability. We studied Holocene woodland history in a sandstone pseudokarst area (Doksy region, Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic). Twelve soil profiles collected under native or semicultural pine forests were analyzed using anthracological methods. In seven of them, the age of profile bases was established using radiocarbon dating. All analyzed samples show a high degree of mutual similarity of species composition regardless of the site or the depth of the sampled soil layer, as well as a good concordance between the composition of fossil and contemporary vegetation. Forest vegetation dominated by Pinus sylvestris with a low but regular occurrence of Picea abies, Quercus sp. and Vaccinium sp. has prevailed since late Boreal up to the present. No considerable vegetation changes were detected during this period, except for succession after fire events.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0212617