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Interplay of climate, human impact, and land erosion recorded in the natural archives of Stráznické Pomoraví (Czech Republic)

Project Identification
IAAX00130801
Project Period
1/2008 - 12/2011
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Grants of distinctly investigative character focused on the sphere of research pursued at present particularly in the ASCR
MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Science
Keywords
erosion; meandring river; Morava; land use; climate; Holocene; last millennium; anthropogenic forcing; natural forcing
Cooperating Organization
Institute of Botany of the ASCR, v. v. i.
  • Responsible person PhDr. Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, CSc.
Institute of Geology of the ASCR, v. v. i.
  • Responsible person RNDr. Jaroslav Kadlec, Dr.
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i.
  • Responsible person RNDr. Tomáš Grygar, CSc.
Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Responsible person Ing. Ivo Světlík
G IMPULS Praha spol.s.r.o.
  • Responsible person RNDr. Vojtěch Beneš

The proposed project is focused on a detailed record of waterborne and aeolian erosions in Strážnické Pomoraví on the lower reach of Morava River in the Holocene, in particular in the last millennium. The main aim is to estimate how the erosion was affected by natural and anthropogenic factors during the fall of the Great Moravian Empire, during Mediaeval colonization, and in the current extensive agricultural land use. Erosion processes recorded in the flood and aeolian sediments will be reconstructed using sedimentological, geophysical, mineralogical, and geochemical means and pollen analysis, supplemented by (14)C, dendrochronological, and OSL dating. The results will be compared with the historical records on the land use and historical-climatologic information on extreme windstorms and flood events. The targeted multidisciplinary study of that natural archive completed by historical data will permit reconstruction of the climate evolution in Central Europe in the last millennium.

Publications

Total number of publications: 6

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