期刊
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
卷 357, 期 -, 页码 282-294出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.045
关键词
Panolis flammea; Insect outbreak; Drainage; Fires; Drought; Palaeohydrology
资金
- Polish National Science Centre [NN304078440]
- Polish National Centre for Research and Development [203258]
- Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union [PSPB-013/2010]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [NN306060940, NN305077936]
We present the past 200 years palaeoecology of a peatland located in W Poland. This site is very important from the point of view of regional nature conservation. Plant macrofossils, testate amoebae, peat microtomography and radiocarbon dating were used in high-resolution to reconstruct the recent human impact on the peatland. In this study, we hypothesise that recent disturbance associated with peatland drainage and forest transformation has affected the development of the peatland and its trophic states. We sought to answer several questions. I) How pristine is the Rzecin peatland? II) Did the outbreak of Panolis flammea and the deforestation of 90% of the area of the Notec Forest affect the water table and the pH of the Rzecin peatland? III) Did the construction of the Rzecin Canal through the drainage of the peatland (in the 1880s and 1890s) strongly influence the changes in the ground water of the Rzecin peatland? Deforestation and the digging of the Rzecin drainage canal between AD 1880 and AD 1890 marked the beginning of major changes in the wetland ecosystem and caused habitat acidification. The next acidification event, connected with Sphagnum appearance, began ca AD 1990. Based on our quantitative reconstruction, the water table decreased during the years preceding P. flammea outbreak in AD 1923. Then, the water table increased after the outbreak correlated with the historical maps that show ephemeral lakes in the Notec Forest. The wetland examined by the current study was formerly perceived as highly natural, but its state is far from pristine, being very unstable during the last 200 years. Catastrophic events in the catchment change wetlands to a greater extent than we suppose, and their pristine state may not have existed for centuries. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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