Palaeoecological evidence for the middle and late Holocene vegetation, climate and land use in the upper Don River basin (Russia)статья
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Аннотация:New pollen and plant macrofossil data, backedby radiocarbon dates, from the Kulikovo battlefield area inthe forest-steppe region of the Upper Don River basin(central part of European Russia) indicate that the area wascovered by mosaic vegetation in the second half of theHolocene. Steppe communities dominated during themid—late Atlantic (7.2–5.7 cal. kyrB.P.) and early Subat-lantic (2.7–2.4 cal. kyrB.P.), while forest-steppe dominatedduring the Subboreal (2.7–5.7 cal. kyrB.P.), middle andlate Subatlantic (2.4 cal. kyrB.P. – present). Climaticreconstructions based on these data show that landscapedynamics in the region were most probably driven bychanges in effective moisture: an excess of precipitationover evaporation. Even small reductions in annual precip-itation, accompanied by a rise in summer temperatures by1–3°C above present values, were sufficient to increase theproportion of steppe communities within this landscapecomplex, and also probably resulted in higher frequenciesof wildfires. Signals of anthropogenic disturbance of veg-etation are clearly pronounced in the pollen and plantmacrofossil records since the middle Atlantic. However,human-induced changes in the vegetation remain subtleuntil the medieval period.