Late Glacial and Holocene history of vegetation in Poland based on isopollen maps
Edited by: Magdalena Ralska-Jasiewiczowa
and Małgorzata Latałowa, Krystyna Wasylikowa, Kazimierz Tobolski,
Ewa Madeyska, Herbert E. Wright Jr. & Charles Turner
The book is aimed to present the migration histories of all main trees and some selected shrub
and herb taxa on the territory of Poland during the last 14,000 14C years BP (ca. 15,500 cal
years) basing on isopollen maps. The area is particularly interesting in this respect due to its
location in the transition zone between the atlantic and continental climate of Europe crossing
with the southern and northern climatic influences.
The isopollen method was first proposed by Professor W. Szafer, a famous Polish botanist,
palaeobotanist and plant geographer, 70 years ago (Szafer 1935). The method was, however,
long forgotten due to the difficulties with dating and correlating pollen sequences. In the last
decades, the development of dating methods and enormous advances in numerical techniques
allowed Szafer’s isopollen maps to be turned into a precise tool to study the vegetation dynamics
and make syntheses in the field of historical plant geography.
Twenty seven Polish Holocene palynologists have contributed to the preparation of the book. It
presents dot and colour isopollen maps of 24 taxa of trees and shrubs and 14 herb taxa. The sets
of maps for each taxon are described and analyzed, and supplemented with the short information
about their present-day distribution in Europe and in Poland, their ecological requirements, pollen
production and dispersal, and expansion in -Europe during the Late Glacial and Holocene. The
summary chapters discuss the processes of vegetational changes during the Late Glacial, Early
Holocene, Mid-Holocene, Late Holocene and the youngest section of the Late Holocene showing
the increasing human pressure.
The book is very useful not only for palaeoecologists and plant geographers, but also for
archaeologists, forestry specialists, geographers and other representatives of earth sciences. It
may help in mapping the potential natural vegetation and planning the recultivation of areas
changed by human impact.
Cracow 2004; 444 pages; format: A4 (20,5 × 29,5 cm)
Price: 98,00 EUR (porto included)
ISBN: 83-89648-23-7
Publisher: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Cracow, Poland
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Acta Palaeobotanica - Vol. 47 no. 1 (2007) - edited by Johanna Kovar-Eder, Lilla Hably, Veronika
Wahnert
This special volume of papers by outstanding researchers invited to contribute to the publication
is dedicated to Zlatko Kvacek. It was intended to be a token of our gratitude and appreciation on
the occasion of their 70 th birthdays.
a.. WALTHER H. Professor Zlatko Kvaček's seventieth
b.. KVAČEK J. Bibliography.....................................
c.. HABLY L., KOVAR-EDER J. and SAKALA J. Zlatko Kvaček our teacher and
colleague
d.. KVAČEK J. The conifer Brachyphyllum squammosum from the Bohemian
Cenomanian
e.. HERMAN A.B. and KVAČEK J. Early Campanian Grünbach flora of Austria: systematic
composition and palaeoclimatic
interpretations.............................................................................
f.. GOLOVNEVA L.B. and Oskolski A.A. Infructescences of Cathiaria gen. n. from the late
Cretaceous of North Kazakhstan and Siberia
(Russia)...............................................................
g.. UHL D, TRAISER C., GRIESSER U. and DENK T. Fossil leaves as palaeoclimate proxies in
the Palaeogene of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) .............................................................................
h.. Steart D.C., Collinson M.E., Scott A.C., Glasspool I.J. and Hooker J.J. The Cobham Lignite
Bed: the palaeobotany of two petrographically contrasting lignites from either side of the
Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion
i.. SAKALA J. The potential of fossil angiosperm wood to reconstruct the palaeoclimate in the
Tertiary of Central Europe (Czech Republic,
Germany)............................................................
j.. MAI D.H. The floral change in the Tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany)
k.. KUNZMANN L. and WALTHER H. A noteworthy plant taphocoenosis from the Lower
Oligocene Haselbach Member (Saxony, Germany) containing Apocynophyllum nerii-folium
Heer
l.. KOVÁČOVÁ M. and SITÁR V. Early Miocene flora of the South Slovakian basin
m.. TRAISER C., UHL D., KLOTZ S. and MOSBRUGGER V. Leaf physiognomy and
palaeo-environmental estimates - an alternative technique based on an European calibration
.................
a.. WOROBIEC G. Laurus abchasica (Kolakovsky & Shakryl) Ferguson from the Neogene of the
Bełchatów Lignite Mine (Central Poland) .............................................................................
b.. SCHNEIDER W. Magnolia L. in peat-forming associations of the Miocene seams in Lower
Lusatia (East Germany)
c.. WANG Q., DILCHER D.L. and LOTT T.A. Podocarpium A. Braun ex Stizenberger 1851 from
the middle Miocene of Eastern China, and its palaeoecology and
biogeography.....................
d.. MANCHESTER S.R and ZASTAWNIAK E. Fruit with perianth remains of Chaneya Wang &
Manchester (extinct Rutaceae) in the Upper Miocene of Sośnica,
Poland..............................
e.. VELICHKEVICH F.Yu. and ZASTAWNIAK E. The state of investigation of the Upper Pliocene
Dvorets flora (SE Belarus)
f.. DOLÁKOVÁ N. and BUREŠOVÁ A. Use of fluorescent microscopy in the study of redeposited
palynomorphs in the cave and marine sediments of Moravia (Czech Republic).........
g.. MA Q.W., LI C.S. and LI F.L. Epidermal structures of Cryptomeria japonica and implications
to the fossil record
h.. STUCHLIK L., ZIEMBIŃSKA-TWORZY­DŁO M., and KOHLMAN-ADAMSKA A. Botanical
affinity of some Neogene sporomorphs and nomenclatural problems
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