Both climate change and anthropogenic disturbance affect vegetation composition, but it is
difficult to separate these drivers of vegetation change from one another. A better …

We reconstruct the vegetational history of the southern side of the Alps at 18,000–10,000
calyr BP using previous and new AMS-dated stratigraphic records of pollen, stomata, and …

Characterization of land cover change in the past is fundamental to understand the evolution
and present state of the Earth system, the amount of carbon and nutrient stocks in terrestrial …

The reconstruction of human impact is pivotal in palaeoecological studies, as humans are
among the most important drivers of Holocene vegetation and ecosystem change …

High-resolution pollen, conifer stomata and plant macrofossil analyses of two glacial lake
sediments (1740 and 1990 m asl) are used to reconstruct Lateglacial (LG) and early …

Abstract Generally Early Triassic floras are believed to be depauperate, suffering from
protracted recovery following the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Here we present …

Digital soil map** in mountain areas faces two major limitations: the small number of
available observations and the non-linearity of the relations between environmental …

Aim Forest communities in the European Central Alps are highly sensitive to climatic
change. Palaeobotanical studies have demonstrated that forests rapidly expanded upslope …

Mountain forest ecosystems in central Europe are a product of millennia of land use and
climate change, and this historical legacy shapes their vulnerability to projected climate …

Chironomids and pollen were studied in a radiocarbon-dated sediment sequence obtained
from a former lake near the Maloja Pass in the Central Swiss Alps (1865m asl) to reconstruct …