Holocene expansions of Fagus silvatica and Abies alba in Central Europe: where are we after eight decades of debate?

W Tinner, AF Lotter - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
During the past eight decades contrasting hypotheses have been put forward to explain the
Holocene expansions of Fagus silvatica (beech) and Abies alba (fir) in Central Europe. The …

Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

L Marquer, MJ Gaillard, S Sugita, A Poska… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Early agriculture can be detected in palaeovegetation records, but quantification of the
relative importance of climate and land use in influencing regional vegetation composition …

Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

T Giesecke, S Brewer, W Finsinger… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Palaeoecological reconstructions document past vegetation change, with estimates of
fast shifts in species distributions. The resulting rates of plant spread are often not matched …

Patterns of post‐glacial spread and the extent of glacial refugia of European beech (Fagus sylvatica)

D Magri - Journal of Biogeography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Establishing possible relationships between the magnitudes of the glacial distribution of
the European beech, Fagus sylvatica L., and its post‐glacial spread. Location Europe …

Białowieża forest—A relic of the high naturalness of European forests

B Jaroszewicz, O Cholewińska, JM Gutowski… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In Europe only some small isolated patches of forests with a high degree of naturalness still
exist. These are forests, whose structure, composition and function has been shaped by …

Assessing resilience in long-term ecological data sets

F Müller, M Bergmann, R Dannowski, JW Dippner… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper the concept of resilience is discussed on the base of 13 case studies from the
German branch of the International Long-Term Ecological Research Program. In the …

Towards an understanding of the Holocene distribution of Fagus sylvatica L.

T Giesecke, T Hickler, T Kunkel, MT Sykes… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the driving forces and mechanisms of changes in past plant distribution
and abundance will help assess the biological consequences of future climate change …

Quantitative reconstructions of changes in regional openness in north-central Europe reveal new insights into old questions

AB Nielsen, T Giesecke, M Theuerkauf, I Feeser… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
By applying the recently developed model REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation
Abundance from Large Sites)(Sugita, 2007) to pollen data from a large number of sites …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental implications of past socioeconomic events in Greater Poland during the last 1200 years. Synthesis of paleoecological and historical data

S Czerwiński, P Guzowski, M Lamentowicz… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
We explored the past environmental history inferred from a fen located in northwestern
Poland, in a historically important location. Pollen, plant macrofossils, micro-and …

Long-term hydrological dynamics and fire history over the last 2000 years in CE Europe reconstructed from a high-resolution peat archive

K Marcisz, W Tinner, D Colombaroli, P Kołaczek… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sphagnum peatlands in the oceanic-continental transition zone of Poland are currently
influenced by climatic and anthropogenic factors that lead to peat desiccation and …