Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: The Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study
| العنوان: | Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: The Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study |
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| المؤلفون: | Michał Gradziński, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Krzysztof Wertz, Lembi Lõugas, Grzegorz Lipecki, Michał Wojenka, Albert Zastawny, Jarosław Wilczyński, Barbara Miękina, Witold Paweł Alexandrowicz, Adrian Marciszak, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Anita Szczepanek |
| المصدر: | The Holocene. 30:905-922 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | geology, Archeology, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Holocene, Ecology, Ecology (disciplines), anthracology, Paleontology, cave sediments, Cave, Paleoecology, Glacial period, environment, paleontology, Foreland basin, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthracology |
| الوصف: | The study of past environments, their ecology, and detailed changes through time has become an important task of environmental science. Records of paleoenvironment usually vary between regions owing to different influences of local climate, vegetation, relief, and depositional processes. Therefore, studying local sequences thoroughly allows paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions for particular regions, but it also provides important data that complement the global record. The Żarska Cave is an exceptional site, which owing to its thick and undisturbed Holocene sediments with very rich paleobotanical and paleozoological materials has become the most complete example of the uppermost Upper Pleistocene and Holocene cave deposits in the Polish uplands. The aim of our study was to understand paleoenvironmental changes in southern Poland, from the late Glacial to the late Holocene, which has been targeted by use of a detailed geological analysis accompanied by analysis of a wide range of paleobotanical, paleozoological, and archeological assemblages. All the results obtained have permitted characterization of the paleoenvironmental changes occurring in the area of the Polish Jura during the last >15 ka years. A particularly well-represented sequence covers the Allerød interstadial, which revealed the presence of forests with associated shade-loving mollusks and rodents. The beginning of the Holocene was clearly identified with an increase of shaded forest habitats, which developed in a still relatively cold climate with continental features, and with the first appearance of mesophilous deciduous trees. During the middle Holocene, unusual evidence for maple forests is documented, which developed before the formation of beech forests, typical for the late Holocene. The obtained sequence has great significance not only for the Polish Jura region, but also has wider implications for southern Poland and the vast area of the northern Carpathian foreland. |
| تدمد: | 1477-0911 0959-6836 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959683620902220 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::ad8c06d7c654bca9def3dbc784a6ec82 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620902220 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ad8c06d7c654bca9def3dbc784a6ec82 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14770911 09596836 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/0959683620902220 |