Late glacial climatic and environmental changes in eastern-central Europe: Correlation of multiple biotic and abiotic proxies from the Lake Švarcenberk, Czech Republic

0424766 - GLÚ 2015 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Hošek, J. - Pokorný, P. - Kubovčík, V. - Horáček, I. - Žáčková, P. - Kadlec, Jaroslav - Rojik, C. - Lisá, Lenka - Bučkuliaková, S.
Late glacial climatic and environmental changes in eastern-central Europe: Correlation of multiple biotic and abiotic proxies from the Lake Švarcenberk, Czech Republic.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Roč. 396, 15 February (2014), s. 155-172. ISSN 0031-0182. E-ISSN 1872-616X
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985831
Klíčová slova: Last Glacial Termination * lacustrine sediments * climate changes * biotic/abiotic responses * Eastern-Central Europe
Kód oboru RIV: DB - Geologie a mineralogie
Impakt faktor: 2.339, rok: 2014

Thick lake sediments discovered in the southern part of the Czech Republic provide a high-resolution archive for detailed study of paleoenvironmental changes during the Late Pleistocene to Holocene in eastern-central Europe. Until recently, no similar records were available for this important region in the transition from oceanic to continental macro-climatic settings. Using a multi-proxy approach that combines sedimentological, pollen-analytical, paleozoological (Chironomids), geochemical and mineral-magnetic methods we demonstrate that major climatic events of the Late Glacial can be correlated with Atlantic rather than continental regimes as reported in paleoclimatic literature for the area of the interest. The sensitivity of applied biological and abiological techniques to climatically-driven processes allows trans-regional comparisons and enables us to discuss the pattern of geographic variation in these processes. We are able to establish a clear relationship between vegetation cover, soil development and erosional processes. A short-term intra-Alleröd cool event has been correlated with the Gerzensee oscillation. Proxy evidence suggests that the early half of the Younger Dryas was rather humid, whereas the latter half was dry and had significant impact on vegetation, sedimentary dynamics and lake level status during the YD/Preboreal transition.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0230792