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New research of the peat bogs in the Bohemian/Bavarian Forest (Šumava Mts.)
Abstract
The organic sediments in the Bohemian/Bavarian Forest were evidenced and considered. The peatbog sediments on the map sheets Kvilda (22-334) and Borová Lada (32-112) are the subject of palynological investigation and Quaternary-geological mapping. Several samples of the localities were taken to be radio-carbon-dated (Gd: Radiocarbon Laboratory Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland). Results of pollen analysis (or study of macroscopic plant remains) are used for the reconstruction of vegetational evolution in the Bohemian/Bavarian Forest. Sediments of the lakes (Černé, Čertovo, Plešné, Prášilské lakes) and peat bogs provide information on the origin and evolution (even vegetational) of this area. The Bohemian/Bavarian Forest are a had until now had a limited amount of suitable palynological data; the evolution since the last glacial stage has been recorded at the Bavarian locality of Haidmühle (Stalling 1987). Further information on peat bogs is summarized in the papers of Dohnal et al. (1965) and Succow and Jeschke (1986). More recent palynological analyses were carried out in the Bohemian/Bavarian Forest foot-hills (Rybníčková 1973, Rybníček - Rybníčková 1974) and in the Bohemian/Bavarian Forest (Soukupová - Svobodová - Jeník 2001).
