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@ARTICLE{DeVleeschouwer:111949,
author = {De Vleeschouwer, F. and Pazdur, A. and Luthers, C. and
Streel, M. and Mauquoy, D. and Wastiaux, C. and Le Roux, G.
and Moschen, R. and Blaauw, M. and Pawlyta, J. and Sikorski,
J. and Piotrowska, N.},
title = {{A} millennial record of environmental change in peat
deposits from the {M}isten bog ({E}ast {B}elgium)},
journal = {Quaternary international},
volume = {268},
issn = {1040-6182},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {PreJuSER-111949},
pages = {44 - 57},
year = {2012},
note = {W. Shotyk (University of Heidelberg) is warmly thanked for
loaning his Wardenaar corer and for having let us use the
peat-cutting facilities at the IES (University of
Heidelberg, Germany). Michel Mathijs and Mona Court-Picon
were of great help on the field. We thank Konrad Tudyka and
Agnieszka Wiszniowska for their help with the <SUP>14</SUP>C
sample preparation. Pascal Mertes (DNF-Belgian Forest and
Nature Ministry) is also acknowledged for providing us with
the official authorization for coring the Misten bog. This
research was funded through the ATIS ('Absolute Time Scales
and Isotope Studies for Investigating Events in Earth and
Human History') Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge project
MTKD-CT-2005-029642. The WD-XRF data aquisition was made
possible by Richard Bindler (Umea University) through a
research grant from the Kempe Foundation, which also
provided a post doc fellowship to F. De Vlee-schouwer in
2010. We thank guest editor Paul D.M. Hughes, Jonathan
Nichols, and one anonymous reviewer for their useful
comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.},
abstract = {In this study, palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in the
top metre of a peat profile (Misten bog, East Belgium) were
investigated using a multiproxy approach. Proxies include
bulk density, Ti and Si content, pollen, macrofossils, delta
C-13 on specific Sphagnum stems, and delta C-13-delta O-18
on Sphagnum leaves. A high-resolution chronology was
generated using Pb-210 measurements and 22 C-14 AMS dates on
carefully selected Sphagnum macrofossils. delta C-13 only
records large change in mire surface wetness. This is partly
due to the fact that the core was taken from the edge of a
hummock, which may make it difficult to track small isotopic
changes. The delta C-13 signal seems to be dependent upon
the Sphagnum species composition. For example, a change
between Sphagnum section Cuspidata towards Sphagnum
imbricatum causes a significant drop in the delta C-13
values. On the whole, the C and O isotopes record two
shallow pool phases during the 8th-9th and the 13th
centuries. Pollen and atmospheric soil dust (ASD) fluxes
records increased human occupation in the area. There may be
some climatic signals in the ASD flux, but they are
difficult to decipher from the increasing human impact (land
clearance, agriculture) during the last millennium. The
variations in the proxies are not always synchronous,
suggesting different triggering factors (temperature,
wetness, windiness) for each proxy. This study also
emphasizes that, compared to studies dealing with pollution
using geochemical proxies, palaeoclimatic inferences from
peat bogs need as many proxies as possible, together with
highly accurate and precise age-models, in order to better
understand climate variability and their consequences during
the Holocene. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights
reserved.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Geography, Physical / Geosciences, Multidisciplinary},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000307618500005},
doi = {10.1016/j.quaint.2011.12.010},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/111949},
}