Vojen Ložek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4971751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vojen Ložek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vojen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ložek |
| SIGNATURE | LOŽEK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mollusc successions reveal northward postglacial shifts of Alpine species ranges (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic)
The Alps are an important hotspot of species diversity and endemism, as well as a presumed glacial refugium of several species’ groups including land snails. The recent ranges of Alpine endemics are well known, but their fluctuations during the postglacial period mirroring local climate changes are understudied. By analysing five Late Glacial and Holocene mollusc successions from two areas in the southernmost part of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Re…
Multiproxy evidence of middle and Late Pleistocene environmental changes in the loess-paleosol sequence of Bůhzdař (Czech Republic)
The lost paradise of snails
We studied the transformation of a middle-to-late Holocene forested ecosystem using the highly indicative remains of land snails. The study areas were sandstone landscapes of northern Bohemia (Czech Republic) that provide extremely rich terrestrial fossil records. As far as we know, nowhere else in the world does such a type of sedimentary environment provide Holocene records of snail shells. Currently, these sandstone landscapes are covered by l…
A glacial refugium and zoogeographic boundary in the Slovak eastern Carpathians
Although the Carpathians in Europe have often been considered a glacial refugium for temperate plants, vertebrates, and molluscs, the fossil records, the only indisputable evidence surviving glacial periods, are as yet scarce. Moreover, the distribution of fossil records is uneven, and some areas have remained unstudied. We present here three molluscan successions from such an area—the border between the western and eastern Carpathians. This area…
Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Malá Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
While general trends in Central European postglacial recolonisation dynamics are relatively well known, we often lack studies on intermediate (meta-population, landscape) scales. Such studies are needed to increase our understanding of, for example, the location of refugia; emergence of endemism, rates and trajectories of postglacial migrations; and anthropogenic landscape changes. Here, we focused on the outer Western Carpathian mountain chain M…
Mid-Holocene bottleneck for central European dry grasslands
Revisiting the classical Gradmann’s ‘steppe theory’ for central Europe, we examine whether the early Holocene steppe habitats survived the critical period of maximum Holocene afforestation: the mid-Holocene bottleneck. Despite the undisputable fact that afforestation was a dominant ecological factor in this period, our parallel analyses of pollen and molluscs from sedimentary sequences discovered in the dry lowland area of northern Bohemia, Czech…
Direct evidence of central European forest refugia during the last glacial period based on mollusc fossils
Although there is evidence from molecular studies for the existence of central European last glacial refugia for temperate species, there is still a great lack of direct fossil records to confirm this theory. Here we bring such evidence in the form of fossil shells from twenty strictly forest land snail species, which were recorded in radiocarbon-dated late glacial or older mollusc assemblages of nine non-interrupted mollusc successions situated …
Holocene succession and biogeographical importance of mollusc fauna in the Western Sudetes (Czech Republic)
Mollusc succession of a prehistoric settlement area during the Holocene
Some Central European areas were attractive for the first agricultural settlements due to their suitable natural conditions. The Holocene development of such areas was thus under long-term human pressure, whose impact on the whole landscape is still poorly understood. One of such areas is the České středohoří Mountains. While pollen analyses can provide the general pattern of the landscape development, the analyses of mollusc succession provide l…
Climate-induced changes in Holocene calcareous tufa formations, Bohemian Karst, Czech Republic
Molluscan fauna from the loess series of Bohemia and Moravia
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research
Creating Settlement Networks
Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Western Invasion
Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background
Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic
The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic
Hunters between East and West
This illuminating work describes-for the first time in English-current research on the environmental background, physical human evolution, and cultural development in Central Europe and Moravia during the Pleistocene
Predmosti after 110 Years
Předmostí after 110 Years
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Předmosí (Czech Republic) is located at the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate, which is an important communication route in Central Europe. During 110 years of investigation, this site has yielded an immense number of artifacts, paleontological materials, human fossils, and art. Important parts of the archaeological and anthropological material were destroyed in 1945, but the illustrations are publish…
Mitteleuropäische Bronzezeit
Holocene Interglacial in Central Europe and its Land Snails
The primeval forests of Central Europe are still inhabited by relatively ecologically demanding, thermo- and hydrophilous snail fauna of interglacial character, which differs from the assemblages of Holocene climatic optimum and of the last interglacial optimum by the absence of some southern (exotic) elements. In the deforested areas inhabited by man, the less demanding mesic to steppe fauna predominates. It differs from analogous early glacial …
Mid-Holocene bottleneck for central European dry grasslands
Revisiting the classical Gradmann’s ‘steppe theory’ for central Europe, we examine whether the early Holocene steppe habitats survived the critical period of maximum Holocene afforestation: the mid-Holocene bottleneck. Despite the undisputable fact that afforestation was a dominant ecological factor in this period, our parallel analyses of pollen and molluscs from sedimentary sequences discovered in the dry lowland area of northern Bohemia, Czech…
Předmostí after 110 Years
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Předmosí (Czech Republic) is located at the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate, which is an important communication route in Central Europe. During 110 years of investigation, this site has yielded an immense number of artifacts, paleontological materials, human fossils, and art. Important parts of the archaeological and anthropological material were destroyed in 1945, but the illustrations are publish…
Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Malá Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
While general trends in Central European postglacial recolonisation dynamics are relatively well known, we often lack studies on intermediate (meta-population, landscape) scales. Such studies are needed to increase our understanding of, for example, the location of refugia; emergence of endemism, rates and trajectories of postglacial migrations; and anthropogenic landscape changes. Here, we focused on the outer Western Carpathian mountain chain M…
The lost paradise of snails
We studied the transformation of a middle-to-late Holocene forested ecosystem using the highly indicative remains of land snails. The study areas were sandstone landscapes of northern Bohemia (Czech Republic) that provide extremely rich terrestrial fossil records. As far as we know, nowhere else in the world does such a type of sedimentary environment provide Holocene records of snail shells. Currently, these sandstone landscapes are covered by l…
Mollusc succession of a prehistoric settlement area during the Holocene
Some Central European areas were attractive for the first agricultural settlements due to their suitable natural conditions. The Holocene development of such areas was thus under long-term human pressure, whose impact on the whole landscape is still poorly understood. One of such areas is the České středohoří Mountains. While pollen analyses can provide the general pattern of the landscape development, the analyses of mollusc succession provide l…
Predmosti after 110 Years
Holocene Interglacial in Central Europe and its Land Snails
The primeval forests of Central Europe are still inhabited by relatively ecologically demanding, thermo- and hydrophilous snail fauna of interglacial character, which differs from the assemblages of Holocene climatic optimum and of the last interglacial optimum by the absence of some southern (exotic) elements. In the deforested areas inhabited by man, the less demanding mesic to steppe fauna predominates. It differs from analogous early glacial …
Mitteleuropäische Bronzezeit
Predmosti after 110 Years
Předmostí after 110 Years
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Předmosí (Czech Republic) is located at the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate, which is an important communication route in Central Europe. During 110 years of investigation, this site has yielded an immense number of artifacts, paleontological materials, human fossils, and art. Important parts of the archaeological and anthropological material were destroyed in 1945, but the illustrations are publish…
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research
Creating Settlement Networks
Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Western Invasion
Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background
Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic
The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic
Hunters between East and West
This illuminating work describes-for the first time in English-current research on the environmental background, physical human evolution, and cultural development in Central Europe and Moravia during the Pleistocene
Molluscan fauna from the loess series of Bohemia and Moravia
Climate-induced changes in Holocene calcareous tufa formations, Bohemian Karst, Czech Republic
Mollusc succession of a prehistoric settlement area during the Holocene
Some Central European areas were attractive for the first agricultural settlements due to their suitable natural conditions. The Holocene development of such areas was thus under long-term human pressure, whose impact on the whole landscape is still poorly understood. One of such areas is the České středohoří Mountains. While pollen analyses can provide the general pattern of the landscape development, the analyses of mollusc succession provide l…
Direct evidence of central European forest refugia during the last glacial period based on mollusc fossils
Although there is evidence from molecular studies for the existence of central European last glacial refugia for temperate species, there is still a great lack of direct fossil records to confirm this theory. Here we bring such evidence in the form of fossil shells from twenty strictly forest land snail species, which were recorded in radiocarbon-dated late glacial or older mollusc assemblages of nine non-interrupted mollusc successions situated …
Holocene succession and biogeographical importance of mollusc fauna in the Western Sudetes (Czech Republic)
Mid-Holocene bottleneck for central European dry grasslands
Revisiting the classical Gradmann’s ‘steppe theory’ for central Europe, we examine whether the early Holocene steppe habitats survived the critical period of maximum Holocene afforestation: the mid-Holocene bottleneck. Despite the undisputable fact that afforestation was a dominant ecological factor in this period, our parallel analyses of pollen and molluscs from sedimentary sequences discovered in the dry lowland area of northern Bohemia, Czech…
Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Malá Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
While general trends in Central European postglacial recolonisation dynamics are relatively well known, we often lack studies on intermediate (meta-population, landscape) scales. Such studies are needed to increase our understanding of, for example, the location of refugia; emergence of endemism, rates and trajectories of postglacial migrations; and anthropogenic landscape changes. Here, we focused on the outer Western Carpathian mountain chain M…
A glacial refugium and zoogeographic boundary in the Slovak eastern Carpathians
Although the Carpathians in Europe have often been considered a glacial refugium for temperate plants, vertebrates, and molluscs, the fossil records, the only indisputable evidence surviving glacial periods, are as yet scarce. Moreover, the distribution of fossil records is uneven, and some areas have remained unstudied. We present here three molluscan successions from such an area—the border between the western and eastern Carpathians. This area…
Multiproxy evidence of middle and Late Pleistocene environmental changes in the loess-paleosol sequence of Bůhzdař (Czech Republic)
The lost paradise of snails
We studied the transformation of a middle-to-late Holocene forested ecosystem using the highly indicative remains of land snails. The study areas were sandstone landscapes of northern Bohemia (Czech Republic) that provide extremely rich terrestrial fossil records. As far as we know, nowhere else in the world does such a type of sedimentary environment provide Holocene records of snail shells. Currently, these sandstone landscapes are covered by l…
Mollusc successions reveal northward postglacial shifts of Alpine species ranges (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic)
The Alps are an important hotspot of species diversity and endemism, as well as a presumed glacial refugium of several species’ groups including land snails. The recent ranges of Alpine endemics are well known, but their fluctuations during the postglacial period mirroring local climate changes are understudied. By analysing five Late Glacial and Holocene mollusc successions from two areas in the southernmost part of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Re…
Geography (22 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Geology (10 works) · Physical geography (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · Glacial period (9 works)