scholarly journals Changes in Raised Bog Relief During the Holocene Case Study: Polish Carpathian Mountains

Author(s):  
Adam ajczak

2019 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 558-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia María Armas-Herrera ◽  
Fernando Pérez-Lambán ◽  
David Badía-Villas ◽  
José Luis Peña-Monné ◽  
José Antonio González-Pérez ◽  
...  


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yicheng Shen ◽  
Luke Sweeney ◽  
Mengmeng Liu ◽  
Jose Antonio Lopez Saez ◽  
Sebastián Pérez-Díaz ◽  
...  

Abstract. Charcoal accumulated in lake, bog or other anoxic sediments through time has been used to document the geographical patterns in changes in fire regimes. Such reconstructions are useful to explore the impact of climate and vegetation changes on fire during periods when the human influence was less prevalent than today. However, charcoal records only provide semi-quantitative estimates of change in biomass burning. Here we derive quantitative estimates of burnt area from vegetation data in two stages. First, we relate the modern charcoal abundance to burnt area using a conversion factor derived from a generalized linear model of burnt area probability based on eight environmental predictors. Then, we establish the relationship between fossil pollen assemblages and burnt area using Tolerance-weighted Weighted Averaging Partial Least-Squares with sampling frequency correction (fxTWA-PLS). We test this approach using the Iberian Peninsula as a case study because it is a fire-prone region with abundant pollen and charcoal records covering the Holocene. We derive the vegetation-burnt area relationship using the 29 records that have both modern and fossil charcoal and pollen data, and then reconstruct palaeo-burnt area for the 114 records with Holocene pollen records. The pollen data predict charcoal abundances through time relatively well (R2 = 0.47) and the changes in reconstructed burnt area are synchronous with known climate changes through the Holocene. This new method opens up the possibility of reconstructing changes in fire regimes quantitatively from pollen records, which are far more numerous than charcoal records.



2020 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 104517
Author(s):  
Costanzo Peter ◽  
Eloisa Salina Borello ◽  
Rory A.F. Dalman ◽  
Pantelis Karamitopoulos ◽  
Freek Busschers ◽  
...  


2017 ◽  
Vol 389 ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica Feurdean ◽  
Gabriela Florescu ◽  
Boris Vannière ◽  
Ioan Tanţău ◽  
Robert B. O‘Hara ◽  
...  


Author(s):  
Natalia Chumak

The environmental changes on short-period stages of the Late Glacial were reconstructed based on pollen data of peat-bog Pidluzhia deposits and their radiocarbon dating. There are the Older and Younger Dryas, the Allerod (three phases) are allocated on palynological data in the Late Glacial. Vegetation had evolved from cold meadows to pine forest during this time. The transition from the Late Glacial to the Holocene was identified by the emergence of broad-leaved trees (elm, oak and linden), the spreading of spruce and disappearance of xerophytic elements. Key words: paleovegetation, paleoclimate, palinology, the Late Glacial, the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.



2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Olena Khrushch

Evidently, a globalized society causes global environmental crises. Undoubtedly, survival of human life on the planet Earth is threatened. Is there any connection between globalization, environmental crises and psychological manifestations? What are the psychological perspectives linking the ecological damages from local to the global scale? This article explores such intricate relationships and discusses the implications. The underlying principal cause is human’s unending greed to acquire maximum materials and power to control the planet and entire humanity. The greed is believed to be a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. The greedy people are supposed to have biological, psychological and sociological drives. Evidently, global destruction of the ecosystems and natural environment are directly or indirectly linked to unprecedented chronic human greed and self-indulgence. Undoubtedly, unencumbered chronic greed of a few elite institutions led by top capitalists has put the entire planet in havoc and infiltrated widespread sufferings at the global scale. Conclusively, psychological basis of environmental problems has a sociological and socio-historical scope within the frame of globalization. Psychological account of the environmental crisis is explained subsequently in this article followed by a case study of deforestation of Carpathian Mountains staged by a greedy Austrian man.



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