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Changes in the vegetation and climatic conditions on the eastern slope of the Subpolar Urals over the past 10000 years have been reconstructed on the basis of integrated palynological, botanical, and radiocarbon analysis of material from two sections of peat deposits in the floodplains of the Lyapin and Man’ya rivers (the Severnaya Sos’va basin). The dynamics of regional vegetation have been traced: from the herb–shrub tundra in the late postglacial time to the spruce–larch forest–tundra and sparse larch–birch–spruce stands in the Early Holocene, to birch–pine–spruce forests with an admixture of fir in the Middle Holocene, and to northern taiga forests with dominance of Scots pine and Siberian stone pine (similar to present-day forests) in the Late Holocene. The results show that the northern taiga zone of the study region in the period between approximately 5500 and 2500 years BP was occupied by forests of middle and southern taiga facies, as the climate was significantly warmer than it is today.
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Original Russian Text © T.G. Antipina, N.K. Panova, 2016, published in Ekologiya, 2016, No. 4, pp. 251–258.
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Antipina, T.G., Panova, N.K. The Holocene dynamics of vegetation and climatic conditions on the eastern slope of the Subpolar Urals. Russ J Ecol 47, 329–337 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413616040056
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