Publication at Faculty of Science |
2011
Abstract
The Polabí lowland is one of the most important agricultural areas in Central Europe. Since the Neolithic Age, agriculture has prevented full expansion of the mixed deciduous forest.
We studied the succession of molluscan assemblages and fossil pollen in this area to answer the question as to how long the canopy forest could survive ongoing human impact. These results provide evidence of a woodland and wetland mosaic which still covered this landscape during the Bronze Age, in contrast with the present-day monotonous open lowland.