Anthropogenic impact on erosion, pedogenesis and fluvial processes in the central European landscapes of the eastern Harz mountains forelands (Germany)

S Dreibrodt, CCM Langan, M Fuchs, HR Bork - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Holocene development of soils and sediments at three sites in the eastern Harz
foreland was investigated using field and laboratory methods and integrated into the …

Fires and their Significance in the Earth's Post-Glacial Period: a Review of Methods, Achievements, Groundwork

MA Pupysheva, TA Blyakharchuk - Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2023 - Springer
This article presents the generalization results of studying the long-term history of paleofires
in the world and on the territory of Russia specifically. Perspective and reliable methods of …

Mid-and Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and fire history in the boreal forest of European Russia: A case study from Meshchera Lowlands

EY Novenko, AN Tsyganov, EM Volkova… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate, fire, and human activities strongly affected the development of vegetation
communities during the Holocene, yet the relative importance of these individual factors …

Crossdating of disturbances by tree uprooting: can treethrow microtopography persist for 6000 years?

P Šamonil, RJ Schaetzl, M Valtera, V Goliáš… - Forest Ecology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Establishing disturbance frequencies in different types of forest ecosystems is an area of
considerable research. We use several overlapping dating methods–robust repeated tree …

Charcoal usage in medieval and modern times in the Harz Mountains Area, Central Germany: Wood selection and fast overexploitation of the woodlands

H Knapp, O Nelle, W Kirleis - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Anthracological analysis is increasingly used to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic
woodland dynamics. Here, we combine macro-charcoal records from charcoal production …

Anthracological and morphological analysis of soils for the reconstruction of the forest ecosystem history (Meshchera Lowlands, Russia)

MV Bobrovsky, DA Kupriaynov, LG Khanina - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
Pedoanthracological methods have never been used for studying natural and
anthropogenic factors of ecosystem dynamics in the area of the Middle Russian Upland. The …

Spatially explicit, quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation based on pollen or charcoal data as a tool for autecology of trees

V Abraham, M Man, M Theuerkauf, P Pokorný… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context The determination of autecological preferences based on long-term vegetation
dynamics is hampered by the lack of realistic estimates for past occurrence and abundance …

Human-induced changes in fire regime and subsequent alteration of the sandstone landscape of Northern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

P Bobek, HS Svobodová, B Werchan… - The …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiproxy palaeoecological evidence from a sandstone region in northern Czech Republic
was collected to explore the impact of fire disturbances on the decline of the broadleaved …

Holocene soil formation and soil erosion at a slope beneath the Neolithic earthwork Salzmünde (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

S Dreibrodt, H Jarecki, C Lubos, SV Khamnueva… - Catena, 2013 - Elsevier
Phases of formation and erosion of Holocene soils were reconstructed based on a
sequence of buried soil horizons and colluvial layers at a lower slope section beneath the …

Disturbances can control fine-scale pedodiversity in old-growth forests: is the soil evolution theory disturbed as well?

P Šamonil, I Vašíčková, P Daněk, D Janík… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Biota–soil interactions in natural ecosystems are the subject of considerable research. Our
hypothesis is that individual trees play a significant role through biomechanical and …