Project information
Vegetation diversity along a continentality gradient in southern Siberia: a key to understanding Early Postglacial history of Central Europe
- Project Identification
- IAA6163303
- Project Period
- 1/2003 - 12/2007
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Grants of distinctly investigative character focused on the sphere of research pursued at present particularly in the ASCR
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
- doc. Mgr. Petr Pokorný, Ph.D.
- Keywords
- palaeoecology, pollen analysis, plant communities, vegetation
Vegetation of the Altai and West Sayan Mts is perhaps the closest modern analogy to Central European vegetation of Late-glacial and Early Holocene. Understanding landscape-level relationships of this vegetation to environment may be crucial for interpretation of Central European vegetation history. Gradient analysis of vegetation and flora in selected landscape types of these mountains, notably with respect to continentality gradient, will be carried out, and supplemented with phytosociological description. Special attention will be given to ecotones forest-steppe and steppe-tundra. Ecological requirements of selected species will be identified and compared with their requirements in Central Europe. Modern pollen spectra will be analysed in each landscape subjected to vegetation analysis. These spectra will be compared with Early Postglacial spectra from Central Europe and used for interpretation of vegetation and landscape history of Central Europe.
Publications
Total number of publications: 15
2010
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Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full-glacial Europe
Journal of Biogeography, year: 2010, volume: 37, edition: 8, DOI
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Modern analogues from the Southern Urals provide insights into biodiversity change in the early Holocene forests of Central Europe
Journal of Biogeography, year: 2010, volume: 37, edition: 4, DOI
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Vertigo botanicorum sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae) - a new whorl-snail from the Russian Altai Mountains
Zootaxa, year: 2010, volume: 2634, edition: 2634
2009
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Surface pollen-vegetation relationships in the forest-steppe, taiga and tundra landscapes of the Russian Altai Mountains
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, year: 2009, volume: 157, edition: 3-4
2008
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Diversity of forest vegetation across a strong gradient of climatic continentality: Western Sayan Mountains, southern Siberia
Plant Ecology, year: 2008, volume: 196, edition: 1
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Genome size and GC content evolution of Festuca: Ancestral expansion and subsequent reduction
Annals of Botany, year: 2008, volume: 101, edition: 3
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Interpretation of the last-glacial vegetation of eastern-central Europe using modern analogues from southern Siberia
Journal of Biogeography, year: 2008, volume: 35, edition: 12
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Nová lokalita žluťuchy jednoduché svízelovité (Thalictrum simplex subsp. galioides) v Polabí a několik pozoruhodných souvislostí
Muzeum a současnost, ser. natur., year: 2008, volume: 23, edition: 1
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Species richness in European steppes : role of productivity, soil depth and pH
Year: 2008, type: Conference abstract
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The relationships of modern pollen spectra to vegetation and climate along a steppe-forest-tundra transition in southern Siberia, explored by decision trees
The Holocene, year: 2008, volume: 18, edition: 8