Summary
Pollen and macrofossil studies of cores in the raised bog part of a mire in the Vosges revealed an almost complete postglacial record. The major pollen assemblage zones, based upon features of the regional pollen types, have been described and their contacts dated by 14C dating. At 9000 BP a pine forest was replaced by mainlyCorylus, andQuercus plusUlmus migrated into the area.Tilia, Alnus andAcer arrived later. From 7500-5000 BP forests ofCorylus, Quercus, Tilia, Ulmus andAcer prevailed.Abies andFagus are dominant in the vegetation from 5000 BP up to the present time.Carpinus immigrated around 3400 BP. In the present mire vegetation a number of vegetation types have been recognized and mapped. The local fossil assemblages have been compared with the species composition of present day plant communities. It is concluded that the raised bog part of the mire began its existence as a lake, that turned later into an intermediate fen (Caricion canescenti-fuscae). Ombrotrophic bog vegetation is present from 5000 BP on.
Résumé
Le développement de la végétation dans les Hautes Vosges pendant le Post Glaciaire est reconstrué assez complètement par des analyses des pollens et macrofossils dans une section d'une tourbière. Les complexes sporopolliniques régionaux sont décrits et datés par datations carbon-quatorze.
9000 BP: forêt dePinus fut replacée parCorylus. Immigration deQuercus etUlmus, plus tard deTilia, Alnus etAcer.
7500–5000 BP: forêt deCorylus, Quercus, Tilia, Ulmus etAcer. A partir de 5000 BPFagus etAbies sont les principales dominantes dans la région.
3400 BP: Immigration deCarpinus.
La végétation actuelle de la tourbière est analysée et comparue avec les complexes fossils dans la section de la tourbière. Au début du Post Glaciaire il y avait une lac, plus tard une végétation comparable avec leCaricion canescenti-fuscae. A partir de 5000 BP il y a une developpement d'une tourbière bombée.
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Nomenclature of plant communities and vascular taxa follows Oberdorfer, E., Pflanzensoziologische Excursionsflora f. Süddeutschland und die angrenzenden Gebiete. 2e Aufl., 1962, unless otherwise stated. For nomenclature of moss species see Table 1.
Thanks are extended to Dr. W. G. Mook, Groningen, for dating of various levels of the core and to A. J. Kalis and Mrs. A. A. M. L. Verbeek-Reuvers for providing details on the present upland vegetation. V. Lingen, the Hague, corrected the English text.
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Janssen, C.R., Cup-Uiterwijk, M.J.J., Edelman, H.J. et al. Ecologic and paleoecologic studies in the Feigne d'Artimont (Vosges, France). Plant Ecol 30, 165–178 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02389705
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