Human impact on open temperate woodlands during the middle Holocene in Central Europe

0478164 - BÚ 2018 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Jamrichová, Eva - Hédl, Radim - Kolář, Jan - Tóth, P. - Bobek, Přemysl - Hajnalová, M. - Procházka, J. - Kadlec, Jaroslav - Szabó, Péter
Human impact on open temperate woodlands during the middle Holocene in Central Europe.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. Roč. 245, OCT 2017 (2017), s. 55-68. ISSN 0034-6667. E-ISSN 1879-0615
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 278065 - LONGWOOD
Institutional support: RVO:67985939 ; RVO:67985530
Keywords : temperate oakwoods * Quercus * human impact
OECD category: Ecology; Physical geography (GFU-E)
Impact factor: 1.665, year: 2017

Two peat cores covering the vegetation history of the past 12,000 years have been investigated by means of pollen and charcoal analyses. Palaeoecological data were interpreted in the context of a climaticmodel and archaeological evidence. Our results showed that the early Holocene vegetation in the study region was composed of open wooded steppe with the dominance of pine. Succession to temperate oak and hazel woodland started in about 7500 cal BP and coincides with the first traces of permanent human settlement in the vicinity of both study sites. Since the Neolithic, different types of woodland management have created a more open forest structure, which has benefited light demanding trees, such as oak and hazel.
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