Articles | Volume 72, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-127-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-127-2023
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11 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 11 Jul 2023

Holocene forest and land-use history of the Erzgebirge, central Europe: a review of palynological data

Knut Kaiser, Martin Theuerkauf, and Falk Hieke

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The ongoing ecological conversion of mountain forests in the Erzgebirge conceptually also requires a historical perspective on the very long-term vegetation and land-use dynamics. We collected and evaluated 121 pollen diagrams. Pollen indications of a local prehistoric human impact also in the higher altitudes find archaeological parallels in the region. The pollen data show that immediately before the medieval clearing, forests were mainly dominated by beech and fir and complemented by spruce.
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