Interstadial inland dune slacks in south-west Slovakia: a multi-proxy vegetation and landscape reconstruction

0446501 - BÚ 2016 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Hájková, Petra - Petr, L. - Horsák, M. - Rohovec, Jan - Hájek, Michal
Interstadial inland dune slacks in south-west Slovakia: a multi-proxy vegetation and landscape reconstruction.
Quaternary International. Roč. 357, Jan 30 (2015), s. 314-328. ISSN 1040-6182. E-ISSN 1873-4553
Institutional support: RVO:67985939 ; RVO:67985831
Keywords : Late Glacial * Western Carpathians * palaeoecological reconstruction
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 2.067, year: 2015

To improve our knowledge about the landscape structure and diversity of wetland habitats, we analysed two palaeoecological interstadial sequences of pollen and macrofossils from the sandy landscape of the Borska lowland (SW Slovakia). The results showed that, during wetter and warmer conditions during the Interstadial, open large dunes had been stabilised by pine woodlands admixed by birch. Contrary to the Podunajska lowland, which is situated eastwards towards the centre of the Pannonian Plain, broadleaf thermophilous trees such as Ulmus, Quercus and Tilia were almost absent. Active dunes were occupied by Hippophae rhamnoides and steppe vegetation with grasses, Artemisia and Helianthemum. Wetland habitats were diverse and abundant in the inter-dune space, partly resembling recent coastal dune slack vegetation or alluvial salty grasslands in continental central Asia. The wetland habitats comprised aquatic habitats, strongly continental calcareous-fens with Blysmus rufus and Triglochin maritima, boreocontinental brown-moss sedge fen fens with Drepanocladus trifarius and Scorpidium scorpioides and reed beds.
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