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Holocene vegetation history

late quaternary environments of the soviet union • Minneapolis • Published In 1984 • Pages: 179-200

By: Khotinskiĭ, N. A. (Nikita Aleksandrovich).

Abstract

Khotinskiĭ describes the history of Holocene vegetation in the former USSR from European Russia through Siberia, starting with the Alleröd period and concluding with the beginning of the Sub-Atlantic period (ca. 16,000-2500 BP). Using data from about a thousand pollen diagrams and seven hundred radiocarbon dates, Khotinskiĭ compiles pollen diagrams and vegetation maps used to describe the changes in tree species and nonarboreal pollen from the Pre-Boreal through Sub-Atlantic periods (ca. 10,300-750 BP) that reflect changes in the climate. Khotinskiĭ points out that there were unique vegetation zones in the past, as present-day vegetation zones shifted and formed assemblages that do not exist today; also attributable to distinctive climatic conditions in the past.

HRAF PubDate

2017

Region

Europe

Sub Region

Eastern Europe

Document Type

essay

Evaluation

Creator Type

Paleobotanist

Document Rating

4: Excellent Secondary Data

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

Sarah Berry; 2014

Field Date

no date given

Coverage Date

16,000-4500 BP

Coverage Place

European Russia and Ukraine

Notes

N. A. Khotinskiy

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200)

LCCN

83025892

LCSH

Paleobiogeography--Soviet Union

Paleoclimatology--Soviet Union