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Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

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Authors:
  1. Karsten Grunewald

    1. Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regi, Dresden, Germany

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  2. Jörg Scheithauer

    1. Landscape Research Centre, Dresden, Germany

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  • The Balkan area is a hot spot of biodiversity but a white spot of dendrochronology, climate knowledge of the past, stystematic environment and landscape research.
  • The landscape research approach with the analyses through multi-palaeo-geoecological proxies is new for the Balkans.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Geoarchives – Why View the Past?

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Pirin Mountains as a Model Region

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 11-31

  4. Holocene Climate and Landscape Chronology

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 33-60

  5. Climate Data and Geo-Archives of the Recent Past

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 61-121

  6. Specifics of the Regional Climate and Landscape History

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 123-135

  7. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer
    Pages 137-148

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 149-161
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Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding opportunity for studies on the impact of climate change. The Balkan Mountains in Southeast Europe, situated at the transition between temperate and Mediterranean climate, are considered as very sensitive to historical and current global changes. The geoarchives lake sediment, peat and soil, long living trees and glaciers have been used to reconstruct the climatically-driven change of forest and treeline during the Holocene and the younger past. These processes are interrelated with complex ecological changes, as for example the seasonality of climate parameters. The landscape research approach with the analyses through multi-palaeo-geoecological proxies is new for the Balkans.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regi, Dresden, Germany

    Karsten Grunewald

  • Landscape Research Centre, Dresden, Germany

    Jörg Scheithauer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

  • Authors: Karsten Grunewald, Jörg Scheithauer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9959-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9958-7Published: 15 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9012-4Published: 26 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9959-4Published: 11 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 161

  • Topics: Geoecology/Natural Processes, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

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