Pollen assemblages of modern soil samples from the Old Botanical Garden of the University of Göttingen

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The importance of pollen analytical data for the reconstruction of the natural conditions and their changes caused by human impact in prehistorical and historical times is beyond all doubt. Pollen analysis can, however, be hampered by poor pollen preservation and low pollen concentrations. As an example pollen assemblages from excavation areas near Pompeii (see doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.777531) and from the Old Botanical Garden of the University of Göttingen are discussed. A pollen diagram (see doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.820590) from the site Höllerer See in Austria (N of the city of Salzburg) demonstrates the intensive agricultural influence on the vegetation of the area during Roman and Medieval times. Human influence was much weaker during the Iron and the Bronze ages. There is no indication of human impact on the vegetation during the Migration period.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820592
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.820592
Provenance
Creator Grüger, Eberhard
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2013
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 572 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (9.939W, 51.532S, 9.951E, 51.538N); Old Botanical Garden, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany; Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Temporal Coverage Begin 1986-09-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1990-09-15T00:00:00Z