12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

A Feurdean, J Liakka, B Vannière, E Marinova… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale
trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long …

Warm Younger Dryas summers and early late glacial spread of temperate deciduous trees in the Pannonian Basin during the last glacial termination (20-9 kyr cal BP)

EK Magyari, I Pál, I Vincze, D Veres, G Jakab… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the last glacial termination vegetation and climate reorganization of
the Eastern Pannonian Plain via the multi-proxy paleoecological analysis of Kokad mire in …

Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central‐eastern Europe)

A Feurdean, E Marinova, AB Nielsen… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The forest steppe of the Transylvanian Plain is a landscape of exceptionally diverse
steppe‐like and semi‐natural grasslands. Is this vegetation a remnant of a once continuous …

Palaeolimnology of the last crater lake in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains: a multiproxy study of Holocene hydrological changes

E Magyari, K Buczkó, G Jakab, M Braun, Z Pál… - Hydrobiologia, 2009 - Springer
A multi-proxy investigation (loss-on-ignition, major and trace elements, pollen, plant
macrofossil and siliceous algae) was carried out on the sediment of a crater lake (Lake Saint …

Climatic fluctuations reflected in the evolution of fluvial systems of Central-Eastern Europe (60–8 ka cal BP)

L Starkel, DJ Michczyńska, P Gębica, T Kiss… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
In general, the evolution of fluvial systems in Central-Eastern Europe reflects the main
phases of climatic changes during the period of 60–8 ka cal BP registered in Greenland ice …

Extra-Mediterranean refugia, post-glacial vegetation history and area dynamics in Eastern Central Europe

Z Varga - Relict species: phylogeography and conservation …, 2009 - Springer
Evidences from fossil records and genetic research suggest that the arboreal refugia were
not restricted to Southern Europe and in particular to the Mediterranean peninsulas during …

Geographical and environmental patterns of Carpathian land snail faunas in a region of high endemicity

V Gheoca, AM Benedek, R Cameron - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The land snail faunas of limestone gorges of Romanian Carpathians were sampled to test
the effect of geographic and environmental factors on the malacofauna richness and …

Holocene vegetation history in the upper forest belt of the Eastern Romanian Carpathians

I Tanţău, A Feurdean, JL de Beaulieu, M Reille… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Pollen analysis supported by nine AMS 14C dates from the Poiana Ştiol peat sequence
(1540m), in the Rodnei Mountains, Eastern Romanian Carpathians (Romania) is used to …

Holocene variability in the range distribution and abundance of Pinus, Picea abies, and Quercus in Romania; implications for their current status

A Feurdean, I Tanţău, S Fărcaş - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper examines fourteen fossil pollen datasets from Romania. It aims to investigate the
temporal and spatial variability in the range distribution and abundance of three forest taxa …

Biodiversity variability across elevations in the Carpathians: parallel change with landscape openness and land use

A Feurdean, CL Parr, I Tanţău, S Fărcaş… - The …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
An understanding of contemporary and likely future biodiversity requires knowledge of how
past human societies have shaped diversity patterns. Here, we use long-term pollen data …