Learning from the past: opportunities for advancing ecological research and practice using palaeoecological data

AE Goodenough, JC Webb - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
Palaeoecology involves analysis of fossil and sub-fossil evidence preserved within
sediments to understand past species distributions, habitats and ecosystems. However …

On the border between land and water: the environmental conditions of the Neolithic occupation from 4.3 until 1.6 ka BC at Serteya, Western Russia

P Kittel, A Mazurkevich, M Wieckowska‐Lüth… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The paper presents the results of a palaeoecological study of Neolithic archaeological
layers from a wetland, multilayer site, Serteya II (Western Russia). It contains, domestic …

The environmental history of the oxbow in the Luciąża River valley–Study on the specific microclimate during Allerød and Younger Dryas in central Poland

O Antczak-Orlewska, D Okupny, D Pawłowski… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vicinity of the Rozprza archaeological site (central Poland) has been the area of a series
of palaeoecological studies tracking the environmental history of the Luciąża River valley up …

Chironomidae morphological types and functional feeding groups as a habitat complexity vestige

O Antczak-Orlewska, M Płóciennik… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) larvae play an important role in a wide range of aquatic
ecosystems. The study focuses on Chironomidae trophic guilds and morphological types as …

Geochemical characteristics of Late Glacial and Holocene biogenic sediments in central Poland and implications for reconstructing the palaeoenvironment

D Okupny - Acta Geographica Lodziensia, 2023 - ceeol.com
The chemical composition of lake and mire sediments can be used as proxies of past
changes in different accumula-tion environments. Here, I present these proxies that can be …

Multi-proxy inferred hydroclimatic conditions at Bęczkowice fen (central Poland); the influence of fluvial processes and human activity in the stone age

M Płóciennik, A Jakiel, J Forysiak, P Kittel… - Acta Geographica …, 2021 - ceeol.com
Fens have been forming in the river valleys of central Poland since the Bølling and went
through a transformation from fully aquatic to semiterrestrial habitats during the Younger …

Archaeobotanical studies in Poland–historical overview, achievements, and future perspectives

M Badura, M Lityńska-Zając… - Acta Societatis …, 2022 - repozytorium.bg.ug.edu.pl
Archaeobotany is the study of relationships between humans and the plant world in the past
based on the analysis of plant remains preserved at archaeological sites. These studies …

Natural and anthropogenic factors affecting intense slope processes in Eastern Europe during the Modern Period: Serteyka river valley, Russia

W Piech, A Hrynowiecka, R Stachowicz-Rybka… - The …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Detailed palaeogeographical studies of the accumulative fan in the Serteyka River valley in
W Russia and underlying biogenic deposits were carried out. The base of a representative …

Crops, weeds and gathered plants in the vicinity of the mediaeval Castle Kolno, near Brzeg, SW Poland, and a morphometric approach for some taxa

R Kosina, L Marek - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2021 - Springer
In the present work, numerous species of useful and wild plants were identified in the
archaeobotanical samples (moat deposit and two ceramic jugs) collected from the …

A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the rampart construction of the medieval ring-fort in Rozprza, Central Poland

J Sikora, P Kittel, M Frączek, Z Głąb, A Golyeva… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
During archaeological excavations of a medieval stronghold in Rozprza, a buried thick
deposit of deep black (Dark Earth type) soil was discovered. A multianalytical …