Years of past regional and local land-use and land-cover change in the southeastern Swedish coastal area
Early human-induced increases in landscape openness as a potential nutrient source to the Baltic Sea coastal waters
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Reconstructions of past land use and related land-cover changes at local and regional scales are needed to evaluate the potential long-term impacts of land use on the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea. In this purpose, we selected the Gamleby area at the Swedish Baltic Sea coast for a case study. We use a new, high resolution pollen record from a small lake (Lillsjön) located 3.6 km NNW of the bay Gamlebyviken and detailed analysis of the available archeological data to reconstruct local land-use changes over the last 3000 years. To estimate land-cover change at local (2–3 km radius area) and regional (50 km radius area) scales we use four additional, published pollen records from two small and two large lakes (25–70 km S of Lillsjön) and the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm, a pollen-vegetation modeling scheme. Results show that regional and local (small lakes Lillsjön and Hyttegöl) land-cover changes are comparable over the last 1500 years (Late Iron Age to present), and that landscape openness was much larger locally than regionally (difference of 20–40% cover over the last 500 years). The periods of largest potential impacts on the Gamlebyviken Bay from regional and local land use are 200–950 CE (Late Iron Age) and 1450 CE to present, and of lowest potential impacts 950–1450 CE. The question on whether the large landscape openness 1150–50 BCE and significant afforestation 50 BCE–200 CE reconstructed for Lillsjön’s area are characteristic of the Gamlebyviken region will require additional pollen records in the catchment area
Agriculture · Archaeology · Bay · Geography · Land cover · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Peat · Physical geography · Vegetation (pathology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Environmental Science · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Ecology
The Agrarian History of Sweden
The Reveals model, a new tool to estimate past regional plant abundance from pollen data in large lakes
The Holocene spread of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Fennoscandia and adjacent areas
Pollen Representation of Vegetation in Quaternary Sediments
Testing the effect of site selection and parameter setting on Reveals-model estimates of plant abundance using the Czech Quaternary Palynological Database
Handbook of holocene palaeoecology and palaeohydrology
Reconstruction and regional correlation of Holocene lake‐level fluctuations in Lake Bysjön, South Sweden
Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly
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Tracing modern environmental conditions to their roots in early mining, metallurgy, and settlement in Gladhammar, southeast Sweden
Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I
Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation II
From landscape description to quantification
Effects of the sampling design and selection of parameter values on pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation
Farm establishment, abandonment and agricultural practices during the last 1,300 years
Are pollen records from small sites appropriate for Reveals model-based quantitative reconstructions of past regional vegetation? An empirical test in southern Sweden
The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
Anthropogenic and climatic impacts on a coastal environment in the Baltic Sea over the last 1000 years
A moment frozen in time
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