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Main stages in the development of forest ecosystems on the upper plateau of the Volga Upland in the Holocene have been reconstructed by analyzing palynological assemblages from peat deposits. Dominance of the forest landscape in the region began in the Boreal time. Pine and, to a lesser extent, birch were the main forest-forming species, whereas the role of spruce was never significant. Broad-leaved species appeared in forests in the early Atlantic time. The formation of floodplain and upland bogs began at the end of the Boreal time and in the first half of the Atlantic time, respectively. Significant anthropogenic changes in the vegetation began in the Subboreal time.
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Blagoveshchenskaya, 2006, published in Ekologiya, 2006, No. 2, pp. 83–88.
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Blagoveshchenskaya, N.V. Holocene dynamics of forest ecosystems on the upper plateau of the Volga Upland. Russ J Ecol 37, 73–78 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413606020019
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