Interpretation of the last-glacial vegetation of eastern-central Europe using modern analogues from southern Siberia

Abstract

Interpretation of fossil pollen assemblages may benefit greatly from comparisons with modern palynological and vegetation analogues. To interpret the full- and late-glacial vegetation in eastern-central Europe we compared fossil pollen assemblages from t

Keywords

• Central Europe
• forest
• fossil pollen spectra
• full glacial
• late glacial
• steppe
• surface pollen
• tundra
• Weichselian
• oxygen-isotope stage-3
• environmental-change
• forest vegetation
• climate
• pollen
• history
• basin
• hungary
• record
• lake