Vegetation and climate changes during the Eemian interglacial in Central and Eastern Europe: comparative analysis of pollen data |
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| Authors: | ANDREI A VELICHKO ELENA Y NOVENKO VALENTINA V PISAREVA ELLA M ZELIKSON TATJANA BOETTGER FRANK W JUNGE |
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| Institution: | Andrei A. Velichko, Elena Y. Novenko, Valentina V. Pisareva, Ella M. Zelikson (joint e-mail: ), Institute of Geography RAS, Department of Evolutionary Geography, Staromonetny 29, 109017 Moscow, Russia;Tatjana Boettger (corresponding author), UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Department of Isotope Hydrology, Th.-Lieser-Str. 4, D-06120 Halle, Germany (e-mail:;Frank W. Junge (e-mail: ), Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Dynamics of Contaminants in Catchment Areas Working Group, Karl-Tauchnitz-Strabe 1, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Velichko, A. A., Novenko, E. Y., Pisareva, V. V., Zelikson, E. M., Boettger, T. & Junge, F. W. 2005 (May): Vegetation and climate changes during the Eemian interglacial in Central and Eastern Europe: comparative analysis of pollen data. Boreas , Vol. 34, pp. 207–219. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483.
The article discusses pollen data from Central and Eastern Europe and provides insight into the climate and vegetation dynamics throughout the Eemian interglacial (including preceding and succeeding transitional phases). Three sections with high resolution pollen records are presented. Comparison of the data indicates that the range of climatic and environmental changes increased from west to east, whereas the main phases of vegetation development appear to have been similar throughout the latitudinal belt. At the interglacial optimum, the vegetation in both Central and Eastern Europe was essentially homogeneous. An abrupt change marks the Saalian/Eemian boundary (transition from OIS 6 to OIS 5e), where environmental fluctuations were similar to those detected at the transition from the Weichselian to the Holocene (Allerød and Dryas 3). Transition from the Eemian to the Weichselian was gradual in the western part of the transect, with forest persisting. In the east, fluctuations of climate and vegetation were more dramatic; forest deteriorated and was replaced by cold open landscapes. |
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