Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

[HTML][HTML] Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene

TG Sim, GT Swindles, PJ Morris, AJ Baird… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Northern peatlands store globally-important amounts of carbon in the form of partly
decomposed plant detritus. Drying associated with climate and land-use change may lead to …

How Joannites' economy eradicated primeval forest and created anthroecosystems in medieval Central Europe

M Lamentowicz, K Marcisz, P Guzowski, M Gałka… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
During European states' development, various past societies utilized natural resources, but
their impact was not uniformly spatially and temporally distributed. Considerable changes …

[HTML][HTML] The late-Holocene relationship between peatland water table depth and summer temperature in northern Poland

K Pleskot, K Apolinarska, LC Cwynar, B Kotrys… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the contribution of current summer warming to the widespread drying of European
peatlands is undeniable, summer temperature fluctuations alone are unable to explain all …

[HTML][HTML] Insight into the factors of mountain bog and forest development in the Schwarzwald Mts.: Implications for ecological restoration

M Gałka, A Hölzer, A Feurdean, J Loisel, H Teickner… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Peatlands are a significant landscape component in temperate mountain ranges and serve
multiple functions. However, many peatlands were damaged, altered, or drained over the …

Reflections on the use of ecological attributes and traits in quaternary botany

HJB Birks - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There has been an upsurge of interest and research activity in trait-based approaches in
ecology, biogeography, and macroecology. I discuss if this upsurge has impacted …

[HTML][HTML] Kettle-hole peatlands as carbon hot spots: Unveiling controls of carbon accumulation rates during the last two millennia

M Karpińska-Kołaczek, P Kołaczek, K Marcisz, M Gałka… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding carbon sequestration patterns in time and space is crucial for models and
future projections of carbon uptake. However, their past provides an insight to this …

Small peatland with a big story: 600-year paleoecological and historical data from a kettle-hole peatland in Western Russia

A Mroczkowska, P Kittel, K Marcisz… - The …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Peatlands are important records of past environmental changes. Based on a multiproxy
analysis, the main factors influencing the evolution of a peatland can be divided into …

Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland

A Bonk, M Słowiński, M Żarczyński, P Oliński… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Long-term paleofire perspectives provide key information on natural and human-derived
land cover changes. The last few millennia are crucial to understanding the future of wildfire …

Synthesis of palaeoecological data from the Polish Lowlands suggests heterogeneous patterns of old-growth forest loss after the Migration Period

S Czerwiński, K Marcisz, A Wacnik, M Lamentowicz - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Human impact on Central European forests dates back thousands of years. In this
study we reanalyzed 36 published pollen data sets with robust chronologies from Polish …