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The fluvial anthroposphere of the Wiesent River catchment, northern Bavaria, Germany: review and first results
Bastian E. W. W. Grimm
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Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, 35390, Germany
Alexander Voigt
Institute for Archaeology, Heritage Conservation Studies and Art History, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, 96047, Germany
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Andreas Dix
Institute for Geography, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, 96047, Germany
Rainer Schreg
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Markus Fuchs
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, 35390, Germany
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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.
People have shaped rivers and floodplains in central Europe for thousands of years, but these...
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