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Open AccessLand cover and use-history of large empty spaces at fortified Iron Age hilltop sites; a case study from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum
The research of Iron Age oppida and hillforts plays a significant role in understanding the urbanisation processes throughout the European continent. The habitation and built-up areas have always been in the l...
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Open AccessA complex insight into the Late Quaternary history of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands summit
Peat is an important archive allowing the reconstruction of past mire environments and surrounding vegetation. The Pihoviny site, one of the oldest peat deposits in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, was analyse...
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Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age
The drivers of the long-term development of high-mountain woodlands are still unexplored in the central European mountains north of the Alps, where archaeologists and palaeoecologists traditionally report no s...
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Open AccessSpatial scaling of pollen-plant diversity relationship in landscapes with contrasting diversity patterns
Mitigating the effects of global change on biodiversity requires its understanding in the past. The main proxy of plant diversity, fossil pollen record, has a complex relationship to surrounding vegetation and...
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The history of a Pannonian oak woodland – palaeoecological evidence from south-eastern Slovakia
The history and continuity of lowland woodlands in Central Europe is closely connected with human activities. We studied a small wetland situated directly in a low-elevation oak-dominated woodland to evaluate ...
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Lowland pine forests in the northwestern Pannonian Basin: between natural vegetation and modern plantations
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 ...
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Holocene development of two calcareous spring fens at the Carpathian-Pannonian interface controlled by climate and human impact
There is still not enough palaeoecological data from the southwestern part of the Western Carpathians, where mountain ridges steeply rise from the dry and warm Pannonian basin. The reason is a low availability...
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Persistence of a vegetation mosaic in a peripheral region: could turbulent medieval history disrupt Holocene continuity of extremely species-rich grasslands?
Fluctuations in intensity of human impact and corresponding vegetation changes have been reported from different parts of Europe for the period from the beginning of the 1st millennium ad to the high Middle Ages....
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Trends and events through seven centuries: the history of a wetland landscape in the Czech Republic
Environmental change can be viewed as the combined result of long-term processes and singular events. While long-term trends appear to be readily available for observation (in the form of temporal comparisons ...
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Landscape history, calcareous fen development and historical events in the Slovak Eastern Carpathians
We explored interactions among human activities, landscape development and changes in biotic proxies in two small calcareous spring fens in the Slovak Eastern Carpathians. These date back to cal. a.d. 930. Result...
