Present‐day and mid‐Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia
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Fossil pollen data supplemented by tree macrofossil records were used to reconstruct the vegetation of the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia at 6000 years. Pollen spectra were assigned to biomes using the plant‐functional‐type method developed by Prentice et al . (1996). Surface pollen data and a modern vegetation map provided a test of the method. This is the first time such a broad‐scale vegetation reconstruction for the greater part of northern Eurasia has been attempted with objective techniques. The new results confirm previous regional palaeoenvironmental studies of the mid‐Holocene while providing a comprehensive synopsis and firmer conclusions. West of the Ural Mountains temperate deciduous forest extended both northward and southward from its modern range. The northern limits of cool mixed and cool conifer forests were also further north than present. Taiga was reduced in European Russia, but was extended into Yakutia where now there is cold deciduous forest. The northern limit of taiga was extended (as shown by increased Picea pollen percentages, and by tree macrofossil records north of the present‐day forest limit) but tundra was still present in north‐eastern Siberia. The boundary between forest and steppe in the continental interior did not shift substantially, and dry conditions similar to present existed in western Mongolia and north of the Aral Sea.
Archaeology · Arctic · Biology · Biome · Climate change · Deciduous · Geography · Holocene · Macrofossil · Physical geography · Pollen · Quaternary · Steppe · Taiga · Temperate deciduous forest · Tree line · Tundra · Vegetation (pathology) · Ecology · Forestry · Geological formations and processes · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The Holocene thermal maximum and late-Holocene cooling in the tundra of NE European Russia
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Climate variability in the Aral Sea basin (Central Asia) during the late Holocene based on vegetation changes
Holocene environmental and climatic changes inferred from Wulungu Lake in northern Xinjiang, China
Hunter-gatherers of the Last Ice Age in northern Eurasia
Holocene environments and climate in the Mongolian Altai reconstructed from the Hoton-Nur pollen and diatom records
Reconstruction of climate and vegetation changes of Lake Bayanchagan (Inner Mongolia)
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change
Reconstruction and prediction of climate and vegetation change in the Holocene in the Altai–Sayan mountains, Central Asia
Paleoenvironments of the Last Interglacial–Glacial Transition on the East European Plain
Geoarchaeological Analyses of a Late-Copper-Age Kurgan on the Great Hungarian Plain
Fire, climate and human drivers of Holocene vegetation changes at the hemiboreal forest ecotone
Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria
Human activities, early farming and natural environment in the north-western Kanto Plain (Central Japan) during the Final Jomon–Early Kofun period (990 cal BCE–330 cal CE) inferred from palynological and archaeobotanical records
Demography and climate in Late Eneolithic Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania
Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology
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Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene climate from the Chuna Lake pollen record, Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia
Regional fire history based on charcoal analysis of sediments from nine lakes in western Mongolia
Palynological and AVHRR observations of modern vegetational gradients in eastern North America
The link between climate change and biodiversity of lacustrine inhabitants and terrestrial plant communities of the Uvs Nuur Basin (Mongolia) during the last three millennia
Unstable early-Holocene climatic and environmental conditions in northwestern Russia derived from a multidisciplinary study of a lake-sediment sequence from Pichozero, southeastern Russian Karelia
Vegetation changes and associated climatic changes in the southern Altai Mountains within China during the Holocene
Holocene climatic reconstructions from the fossil pollen record at Qigai Nuur in the southern Mongolian Plateau
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia
Changes in forest cover in China during the Holocene
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Long-term forest composition and its drivers in taiga forest in NW Russia
Biome changes and their inferred climatic drivers in northern and eastern continental Asia at selected times since 40 cal ka bp
The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project
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A multi-proxy centennial-resolution paleoecological record of Holocene lake sediments in the marginal zone of Last Scandinavian Glaciation (Tver Region, Russia)
Evolution of global vegetation patterns since the last glacial maximum
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Vegetation and climate changes around the Lama Lake, Taymyr Peninsula, Russia during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Bioclimatic change of the past 2500 years within the Balkhash Basin, eastern Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Palynological analysis of the Late Pleistocene terrace deposits of Lake Van, eastern Turkey
Paleoenvironmental history of the Middle Dnieper Area from the Dnieper to Weichselian Glaciation
Postglacial vegetation and climate change in the Lake Onega region of eastern Fennoscandia derived from a radiocarbon-dated pollen record
Warm” stages in the West Siberian Late Pleistocene
History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region
Vegetation and climate history of northern Japan inferred from the 5500-year pollen record from the Oshima Peninsula, SW Hokkaido
Pollen-inferred Late-Glacial and Holocene climate in southern Balkans (Lake Maliq)
Lateglacial and Holocene changes in vegetation and human subsistence around Lake Zhizhitskoye, East European midlatitudes, derived from radiocarbon-dated pollen and archaeological records
Pollen-recorded bioclimatic variations of the last ∼22,600 years retrieved from Achit Nuur core in the western Mongolian Plateau
Pollen stratigraphy, vegetation and environment of the last glacial and Holocene—A record from Toushe Basin, central Taiwan
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Disturbed vegetation reconstruction using the biomization method from Japanese pollen data
Holocene moisture variations across China and driving mechanisms
A Holocene pollen record from the northwestern Himalayan lake Tso Moriri
New results of radiocarbon dating and identification of plant and animal remains from the Oglakhty cemetery provide an insight into the life of the population of southern Siberia in the early 1st millennium CE
Last glacial vegetation reconstructions in the extreme-continental eastern Asia
Lateglacial–Holocene environments and human occupation in the Upper Lena region of Eastern Siberia derived from sedimentary and zooarchaeological data from Lake Ochaul
Climate change, vegetation history, and agricultural activity of Lake Li-yu Tan, central Taiwan, during the last 2.6 ka BP
Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for palaeovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum
Hiatus in Prehistoric Chronology of the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia
Regional and local drivers of vegetation and humidity dynamics in Western Siberia during the Holocene
Environment and Human Behavior in Northern Mongolia During the Upper Pleistocene
Palaeoecological reconstructions in the Tobol-Ishim interfluve
Paleoenvironmental studies of lakeside watershed settlements of the Tobol-Ishim inter-fluve (Zolotoe 1 settlement, Kurgan Oblast)
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