Palaeohydrology and the human impact on one of the largest raised bogs complex in the Western Carpathians (Central Europe) during the last two millennia

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ID12265209
AuthorsPiotr Kołaczek (0000-0003-2552-8269, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, corresponding author), Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek (Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Monika Karpińska‐kołaczek (0000-0002-3249-7408, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Katarzyna Marcisz (0000-0003-2655-9729, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Mariusz Gałka (0000-0001-8906-944X, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Mariusz Lamentowicz (0000-0003-0429-1530, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Year2017
Volume28
Issue4
Pages595-608
Publication date2017-10-17
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Holocene (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0959-6836 • E-ISSN: 1477-0911
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0959683617735587
OpenAlexW2766037068
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited64

The Central European area has been extensively studied using qualitative reconstruction techniques focusing on the development of peatlands in the past; however, research based on quantitative techniques is still lacking, especially in relation to highlands and mountainous areas. In this study, we focused on the hydrological changes and human-induced disturbances that affected two raised bogs from the Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin (Carpathian region): Puścizna Krauszowska and Puścizna Mała. We aimed to reconstruct the development of peatlands and changes in water table under different intensities of human activities. Two peat sequences from two different bogs, both possessing absolute chronologies based on high-resolution 14 C dating, were examined in terms of pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, plant macrofossils and testate amoeba records. We detected an asynchronous decrease in the water table level on the bogs that took place between the 4th and the 7th century ad, which occurred simultaneously with a global cold period ad 300–600 (Migration Period) in case of the Puścizna Mała bog. A concurrent but insignificant human impact on bogs was recorded. A distinct wet shift corresponding to the Wolf solar minimum (ca. ad 1280–1340) in Puścizna Mała was detected during ca. ad 1300–1350. The effect of this climatic event on bog hydrology is difficult to estimate because of the simultaneous human-induced deforestation. Drainage and substantial acceleration of peat extraction in the 19th and the 20th century ad led to the significant disturbances in peatland; however, these bogs were still susceptible to dry climatic events

Archaeology · Biology · Bog · Climate change · Deforestation (computer science · Geography · Groundwater · Holocene · Hydrology (agriculture · Macrofossil · Ombrotrophic · Peat · Period (music · Physical geography · Structural basin · Testate amoebae · Water table · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

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