E&G Quaternary Science Journal
E&G Quaternary Science Journal
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Articles | Volume 75, issue 1
Articles | Volume 75, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-75-49-2026
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Articles | Volume 75, issue 1
Research article
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26 Feb 2026
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2026

The fluvial anthroposphere of the Wiesent River catchment, northern Bavaria, Germany: review and first results

Bastian E. W. W. Grimm, Alexander Voigt, Andreas Dix, Rainer Schreg, and Markus Fuchs

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People have shaped rivers and floodplains in central Europe for thousands of years, but these changes are often hard to trace. We studied the Wiesent River in southern Germany to understand how farming, forest clearing, and river management transformed a natural wetland into a human-shaped landscape. By combining historical sources with field measurements and sediment samples, we show that human land use has strongly controlled floodplain development since medieval times.
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Floodplain architecture of fluvial anthropospheres