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The most complete Holocene peat record from Central Europe: multi-proxy reconstruction of postglacial wetness changes and climate events from Linje peatland, Poland
Eliise Poolma
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Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Katarzyna Marcisz
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Leeli Amon
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Patryk Fiutek
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Piotr Kołaczek
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Karolina Leszczyńska
Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Dmitri Mauquoy
School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Michał Słowiński
Department of Past Landscape Dynamics, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Siim Veski
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Friederike Wagner-Cremer
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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Short summary
We studied a peatland in northern Poland to see how climate and natural ecosystem changes shaped it over the past 11,500 years. By analysing preserved plants and microscopic life, we found clear shifts in wetness linked to climate and internal development. This longest complete peat record in the region shows how peatlands help us understand long-term environmental change and their future resilience to climate change.
We studied a peatland in northern Poland to see how climate and natural ecosystem changes shaped...
