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WORKSHOPS “Towards quantitative vegetation reconstruction from pollen – data handling and applications”

& 11th International Meeting of the Pollen Monitoring Programme Toruń, Poland 28. August – 01. September 2017

Program & Abstract

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WORKSHOPS “Towards quantitative vegetation reconstruction from pollen – data handling and applications”

& 11th International Meeting of the Pollen Monitoring Programme Toruń, Poland 28. August – 01. September 2017

Program & Abstract

Edited by Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz

Our hosts and sponsors:

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The 11th International Meeting of the Pollen Monitoring Programme (PMP) is hosted by Institute of Archaeology NCU in Toruń & Brodnica Landscape Park, Golub-Dobrzyń Castle, Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dolnej Wisły, Zespół Parków Krajobrazowych Chełmińskiego i Nadwiślańskiego oraz Nadleśnictwo Zamrzenica

Local organizing committee Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz (Chairperson) Bożena Noryśkiewicz Anna Filbrandt-Czaja Dorota Bienias

Programme committee: Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz Irena Agnieszka Pidek Daniel Makowiecki Stanisław Roszak Wojciech Chudziak

All authors are responsible for scientific content and copyright of presented data

Printed Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Institute of Archaeology Szosa Bydgoska 44/48 87-100 Toruń e-mail: [email protected] Toruń 2017 2

PROGRAM 28–29.08.2017 WORKSHOP “Towards quantitative vegetation reconstruction from pollen – data handling and applications” Sunday evening accommodation at the hotel (University Hotel, street Szosa Chełmińska 83A) 28.08.2017 MONDAY 7.00–9.00

Breakfast at the hotel

9.00

Departure from the hotel to the Archaeological Institute (by bus)

9.15–9.30

Registration

9.30–9.45

Welcome and greetings

9.45–14.00

Workshops – Part One (Vojtěch Abraham, Anneli Poska, Martin Theuerkauf); with a break for coffee in the middle part Theory – Introduction into pollen dispersal, PPEs and ERV modelling Practicals – using QGIS to extract vegetation data

14.00–15.00 Lunch in the Archaeological Institute 15–18.30

Workshops – Part Two (Vojtěch Abraham, Anneli Poska, Martin Theuerkauf); with a break for coffee in the middle part Practicals – ERV modelling for PPE calculations

18.30

Dinner in the Archaeological Institute. Outside in our open-air museum. In case of bad weather in the building of the Institute.

29.08.2017 TUESDAY 7.00–9.00

Breakfast at the hotel

9.00

Departure from the hotel to the Archaeological Institute (by bus)

9.15–13.30

Workshops – Part Three (Vojtěch Abraham, Anneli Poska, Martin Theuerkauf); with a break for coffee in the middle part Theory – regional scale reconstructions with REVEALS Practical – REVEALS application (in R)

13.30–14.30 Lunch in the Archaeological Institute 14.45–18.00

Workshops – Part Four (Vojtěch Abraham, Anneli Poska, Martin Theuerkauf); with a break for coffee in the middle part Theory – local scale reconstructions with LRA and MarcoPolo Practical – LRA/Marco Polo + time to practice

19.00

Dinner at the University Hotel /also Welcome Dinner for the participants of 11th PMP Meeting

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CONFERENCE – 11th Pollen Monitoring Programme, Meeting 30.08.2017 WEDNESDAY 7.00–9.00 9.00 9.00–9.30

Breakfast at the hotel Departure from the hotel to the Archaeological Institute (by bus) Registration

9.30–9.50

Welcome (Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz & Daniel Makowiecki vice director of the Institute of Archeology NCU)

9.50–10.00 20 years of pollen monitoring at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz) 10.00–10.15

PMP Program (Scheila Hicks, Irena A. Pidek)

10.15 –10.40 Climate of Toruń and its changes in recent centuries (Rajmund Przybylak) 10.40–11.00 Research on the introduction of yew to the forest communities (Mateusz Stopiński) 11.00–11.30 Coffee break

11.30–13.00

Presentations – Session 1; Chairperson Anneli Poska

11.30–12.00

Heather Pardoe “The representation of bisaccate pollen grains in modified-Tauber pollen trap samples and moss samples”

12.00–12.30

Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç, Hülya Caner “Pollen monitoring of the arboreal plant species in the İğneada Waterlogged Forests (Kırklareli-Turkey) for the period 2007-2016

12.30–13.00

Vojtěch Abraham, Barbora Obstová, Jan Roleček, Zuzana Plesková, Přemysl Bobek, Karel Fajmon, Petr Kuneš “Representation factors of rare herbaceous taxa in biodiversity hotspot of Central Europe” Roberta Pini, Federica Badino, Michele Brunetti, Elena Champvillair, Giulia Furlanetto, Francesca Vallè, Cesare Ravazzi, Mattia De Amicis “Altitudinal training sets of pollen rainvegetation cover and modelled climate as a tool for the interpretation of paleoecological records”

13.00–13.20

13.20–14.20 Lunch in the Archaeological Institute

14.20–15.40

Poster session (14.20-15.10 in the lecture room and after it in the poster hall); Chairperson Sheila Hicks

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Ansis Blaus, Triin Reitalu ”The preliminary results of modern and past vegetation comparison by using different pollen monitoring methods in calcareous spring fens”

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Joanna Bokalska-Rajba, Dorota Nalepka „Resumption of studies on pollen deposition in the III Campus of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow”

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Kristina V. Dyuzhova “Subrecent pollen assemblages of bottom sediments on the south of the European part of Russia”

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Dmitry Kuprijanov „The first results of pollen monitoring in Meschera Lowlands (European Russia)”

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Ekaterina Lukanina, Tatiana Blyakharchuk “The dependence of tree pollen production on the weather conditions in the south of West Siberia”

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Elena Novenko, Natalia Mazei, Maria Kusilman “Tree pollen representation in surface pollen assemblages from different vegetation zone of European Russia”

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Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Marcelina Zimny, Marta Szyc “Changes of land-use reflected in the modern pollen deposition in a forest clearing in Gdańsk Upland, N Poland”

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Nurgül

Karlıoğlu

Kılıç,

Çetin

Şenkul,

Selin

Uluçay,

Türkan

Memiş “Monitoring of

modern pollen deposition in the Ördübek Highland (Antalya-Turkey)” 9. Martin Theuerkauf , John Couwenberg ROPES – REVEALS withOut PPEs 10. Vojtěch Abraham, Sheila Hicks, Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, Pim van der Knaap, Jacqueline van Leuwen, Spassimir Tonkov, Siim Veski, Elissaveta Bozilova, Cristin Jensen, Heikki Seppä, Mariana Filipova Marinova, Eliso Kvavadze, Irena Pidek, Martina Hättestrand, Anna FilbrandtCzaja, Achilles Gerasimidis, Samson Panajiotidis, Karl-Dag Vorren, Heather Pardoe, Sonia Fontana, Margrét Hallsdóttir, Laimdota Kalnina, Agnieszka M. Noryskiewicz, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Heather Tinsley, Lena Barnekow, Enikö Magyari, Tiiu Koff, Elena Pavlova, Teija Allenius, Heidi Hyyppä, Mari Kuoppamaa, Thomas Giesecke “Pollen Monitoring Programme database - current status and application to fossil data” 11. Magdalena Fiłoc, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz, Magdalena Suchora „New data for reconstruction of the environment at the end of the last glaciation in NE Poland” 12. Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç, Mehmet Yavuz Paksoy “Pollen morphology of eight endemic Inula L. (Asteraceae) species in Turkey” 13. Marta Szal, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz, Mariusz Wyczółkowski, Wojciech Tylmann “Human impact on the landscape of the Mrągowo Lake District (Masuria, NE Poland) in the Iron Age” 14. İpek Özalp, Hülya Caner, Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç, Meral Avci “Analysis of Fossil Pollen Record from the Late Holocene in the Turkish Highland (Middle Taurus,Turkey)”

Presentations – Session 2; Chairperson Heather Pardoe

15.40–16.40 15.40–16.00

16.00–16.20

Triin Reitalu, H. John B. Birks, Anne E. Bjune, Ansis Blaus, Pille Gerhold, Thomas Giesecke, Aveliina Helm, Jhonny C. Massante, Isabelle Matthias, J. Sakari Salonen, Heikki Seppä, Vivika Väli „Comparison of diversity patterns in modern pollen and plant data across northern Europe” Çetin Şenkul, Aziz Ören, Uğur Doğan, Warren John Eastwood, Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç “Late Holocene environmental changes of Kültepe-Kayseri and surroundings in consideration of fossil and modern pollen analysis”

16.20–16.40 Hülya Caner, Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç, Ahmet Evren Erginal, Sinem Ersin „Imprints of changes in Late Holocene vegetation in NE Anatolian Highland (Turkey) based on palynological study of Lake Aktaş core sediment”

Sightseeing and dinner

“Zajazd Staropolski”, Hotel Gromada, ul Żeglarska 10/14

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31.08.2017 THURSDAY 7.00–9.00

Breakfast at the hotel

8.00

Departure by bus to Brodnicki Landscape Park

9.30–10.40

Presentations – Session 3; Chairperson Irena Agnieszka Pidek

9.30–10.00 Welcome (Director of the Brodnicki Landscape Park, Marian Tomoń) 10.00–10.20

Olga V. Lisitsyna, Nikolay S. Smirnov, Aleksey A. Aleynikov “Modern pollen data from pristine taiga forest of Pechora-Ilych state nature biosphere reserve (Komi Republic, Russia): first results”

10.20–10.40 Anna Filbrandt-Czaja “Modern pollen data from the Tuchola Forest” 10.40–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–13.00

Presentations – Session 4; Chairperson Małgorzata Latałowa

11.00–11.20 Tatiana Blyakharchuk „Peculiarities of contemporary surface spore-pollen spectra from 11.20–11.40

southern Siberia (Tyva and Khakassia Republics)” Maria Nosova, Elena Severova, Olga Volkova “Spruce and broadleaved trees pollen percentages and PAR values in the European part of Russia: 9 years of pollen trap monitoring implemented to the fossil data”

11.40–12.00

Irena Agnieszka Pidek “Carpinus betulus pollen accumulation rates in Roztocze (SE Poland) in relation to scattered presence of hornbeam in Ferdynandovian pollen diagrams”

12.00–12.20

Olga Volkova, Elena Severova “A comparison of modern pollen rain collected by Hirst type and Tauber traps in Moscow, Russia”

12.20–13.00 Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz “Pollen Monitoring in the Brodnica Region” &”The first characteristics of analysed samples of different kind of honeys.”

13.00–14.00 Lunch in Brodnica Landscape Park main building 14.00–15.00 A short walk in the Brodnica Forests (Marian Tomoń) 15.00

Departure by busses to the Golub-Dobrzyń

16.00–17.30

Medieval Castle with the exhibition of famous early Medieval excavations from Kaldus

17.30–19.00 Dinner at the Castle 20.00

Return to Toruń (to the hotel)

20.00–21.00 Business PMP Meeting (in the hotel)

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01.09.2017 FRIDAY 7.00–9.00

Breakfast at the hotel

8.00

Departure by bus

9.30–11.30

Field trip to the yew reserve „Cisy Staropolskie im L. Wyczółkowskiego” Pollen Monitoring in the Wierzchlas Region; Plant cover dynamic in yew in Wierzchlas; History of vegetation (Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz, Dariusz Kamiński, Jan Żmudzki)

11.30–12.00

Coffee break

12.00

Departure from the Wierzchlas to Gruczno

12.30–13.30

Active protection of xerothermic grasslands in the Nature Reserve “Ostnicowe Parowy Gruczna” (Dariusz Kamiński)

14.00–15.00 Lunch in Gruczno 15.00–17.00

Visit in Gruczno (Old Mill, stronghold) and Chrystkowo (“Mennonite’s House” Centre for Education and Museum) (Jarosław Pajakowski)

18.00

Dinner in Toruń „Weranda Chełmińska” restaurant, Szosa Chełmińska 138

02.09.2017 SATURDAY 7.00–9.00

Breakfast at the hotel

Departures

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Representation factors of rare herbaceous taxa in biodiversity hotspot of Central Europe. Vojtěch Abraham1,*, Barbora Obstová2, Jan Roleček2, Zuzana Plesková2, Přemysl Bobek1, Karel Fajmon3, Petr Kuneš1 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Praha 2 Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ602 00 Brno 3 Czech Union for Nature Conservation, ZO 58/06 Bílé Karpaty, Bartolomějské náměstí 47, CZ-698 01 Veselí nad Moravou *Corresponding author: [email protected] 1 2

Oral presentation Palynological diversity strongly depends on the pollen sum, but unequal representation of pollen taxa prevents to set an equal pollen sum. Pollen counts can be corrected by representation factors, which are based on the recent pollen-vegetation relationship and which aggregate biases of pollen productivity and pollen dispersal in a single parameter. Corrected pollen counts can be used in the rarefaction analysis or for the estimation of the target sum. Palynological diversity can be subsequently measured across datasets with different pollen composition. In a region harbouring both steppe and temperate forest ecosystems of a high diversity, Southern Moravia, we located 40 sites (20 forests and 20 non-forests) with moss pollsters. Vegetation was measured according to standard methodology provided by Bunting et al. (2013 - CRACLES protocol). We estimated representation factors of 36 herb taxa. The values for most abundant taxa were compared with pollen productivity estimates from the ERV analysis on the same dataset. Similarity between representation factors and classical PPEs highlights importance of pollen productivity in the pollen representation. Representation factors results as a good alternative for ERV model, when some of the constrains of the ERV analysis are not met. This research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation grant No. 16-10100S.

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Pollen Monitoring Programme database - current status and application to fossil data. Vojtěch Abraham1,*, Sheila Hicks, Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, Pim van der Knaap, Jacqueline van Leuwen, Spassimir Tonkov, Siim Veski, Elissaveta Bozilova, Christin Jensen, Heikki Seppä, Mariana Filipova Marinova, Eliso Kvavadze, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Martina Hättestrand, Anna FilbrandtCzaja, Achilles Gerasimidis, Samson Panajiotidis, Karl-Dag Vorren, Heather Pardoe, Sonia Fontana, Margrét Hallsdóttir, Laimdota Kalnina, Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Heather Tinsley, Lena Barnekow, Enikö Magyari, Tiiu Koff, Elena Pavlova, Teija Allenius, Heidi Hyyppä, Mari Kuoppamaa, Thomas Giesecke Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Praha 2 *Corresponding author: [email protected] 1

Poster presentation Accurate vegetation reconstruction in the past inferred from pollen data can be provided only with the knowledge of pollen dispersal and pollen productivity. Tauber trap is a standard device for collecting modern pollen assemblages in annual resolution, so they allow to study of an impact of atmosferic and climatic trends on the pollen loading. Those are few of many questions which led to the creation of the Pollen Monitoring Programme - palynological community devoted to the trapping of pollen across the Europe. The data were recently gathered, here we announce the database and present the basic statistics. The database encompass 1833 from samples from 263 sites/traps situated in 14 countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. The dataset covers period from 1981 to 2013 however only years from 1997 to 2004 reach more than one hundred samples per year. Total pollen accumulation rates (PAR) vary from 60 grains/cm-2/year in Svalbard to 400000 grains/cm-2/year in Poland or Estonia. These extreme values are given by year-to-year variation in pollen production. When we consider total average PAR per trap, the variation narrows from 300 to 150000 grains/cm-2/year in the same areas (only traps with more than one year included). Factors we used to explain PAR changes in different geographic areas are the degree of forested landscape, latitude and altitude. The most widespread taxa in this extensive dataset (appearing in more than 75% of all annual samples) are: Pinus, Poaceae, Betula, Cyperaceae, Alnus, Salix, Picea and Juniperus-type. Maximal average PAR per trap 33000– 37000 grains/cm-2/year shows Pinus and Betula in Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland.

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Imprints of changes in Late Holocene vegetation in NE Anatolian Highland (Turkey) based on palynological study of Lake Aktaş core sediments Hülya Caner1,*, Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç2, Ahmet Evren Erginal3, Sinem Ersin2 Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Management, Vefa-İstanbul, Turkey Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Botany, Bahçeköy-Istanbul, Turkey 3 Ardahan University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of Geography, Ardahan, Turkey *Corresponding author: [email protected] 1 2

Poster presentation Keywords: Palynological analysis, paleoclimate, Lake Aktaş, Northeast Anatolia, Turkey. This paper aims to shed light on paleo-climatic implications derived from palynological study of core sediments of Lake Aktaş, an alkaline shallow soda lake in Northeast Anatolian highland of Turkey. The palynological analyses conducted on lowermost part of 81 cm-long core sample (AC2) taken at 4 m water depth revealed that Gymnospermae woody plant species dominated by Pinus sylvestris and Picea orientalis existed dominantly in this region 685 years ago based on AMS14C dating of bulk organic carbon. Within the scope of this study, four Tauber pollen traps were emplaced around the lake in June 2015 to detect modern pollen influx on the basis of the criteria of European Pollen Monitoring Program, albeit destroyed all but one by local people. According to only one pollen trap’s modern pollen influx data (cm2/year) collected between the years 2015 and 2016, the pollen influx of NonArboreal Pollen (NAP) is relatively more than that in Arboreal Pollen (AP). According to data taken from counting of modern and fossil pollens, woody plant species had broad distribution around Lake Aktaş about 685 years ago, which conflicts with herbaceous species dominating around the lake at present. Anthropogenic impacts along with climatic changes towards more continental conditions could have profound effects upon shift in the type of vegetation cover in this area. (This study was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of TurkeyTUBITAK Project number: 114Y835 and by the Scientific Research Project Coordination Unit of Istanbul University Project number: FYL-2016-20143 and BEK-2017-24410).

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New data for reconstruction of the environment at the end of the last glaciation in NE Poland Magdalena Fiłoc1,*, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz1, Magdalena Suchora2 Department of Palaeobotany, Institute of Biology, University of Białystok, Ciołkowskiego 1J, 15-425 Białystok, Poland 2 Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Leszczyńskiego 7, 20-069 Lublin, Poland *Corresponding author: [email protected] 1

Poster presentation The north-eastern part of Poland is characterized by the transitional climate of a clearly continental type, which is (and probably was) the polish pole of cold. In this region, the changes of vegetation had to be reflected in the biotic environment more clearly than it was the case in other part of the country, what is also associated with ends of the reach of numerous plants taxa occurring there. Therefore, climate events could be a factor that substantially modified the pattern of succession of vegetation in this region. The main goal of the research is to determine how the global changes of climate that occurred during the Late Glacial influenced the succession of vegetation in the vicinity of the Wigry National Park. The data (pollen, Cladocera) from sediments of Lake Suchar Wielki (Wigry National Park) covering the period Late Glacial and beginning of Holocene have allowed for determining three periods of environmental changes. The reconstructed development of the Allerød interstadial terrestrial environment revealed the dominance of the boreal pine forests with high share of birch. During this time, in the lake are present different species of Cladocera, some recognized as pioneering and some recognized as more demanding. The Younger Dryas – the last cold climate fluctuation of the Late Glacial – is recorded as a significant increase in the acreage of open communities. Water level in the lake during this period increased significantly, and the number of aquatic species decreased. Next, the current interglacial starts. The climate warming at the transition between the Late Glacial and the Holocene, have limited the area of open plant communities. This is recorded in the decline of juniper and herbaceous plants pollen and the significant increase share of pine and birch. In the aquatic environment, the species richness of Cladocera increase.

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Plant cover dynamic in yew (Taxus baccata L.) nature reserve “Cisy Staropolskie im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego” in Wierzchlas. Dariusz Kamiński1,* 1

Chair of Geobotany and Landscape Planning, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń *Corresponding author: [email protected]

Oral presentation Nature reserve "Cisy Staropolskie im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego" in Wierzchlas (NW Poland) is the oldest in Poland (and second in the Europe) protected area. The common yew population in Wierzchlas (most numerous in Europe) is under protection probably from 1827, but reserve was formally established in 1956. The oldest part of the reserve is so called „Yew Island” (hill of bottom moraine), surrounded by Lake Mukrz and formerly mires, recently covered by meadows, rushes and riparian forests. The reserve area is 89,63 ha. As a result of forest cultivation in 18th and 19th centuries, in central part of the reserve grew pine forest with a yew in the undergrowth. Following the introduction of strict conservation protection in 1920, the process of forest regeneration started. These changes manifest themselves as withering of pine trees and rapidly encroachment of species typical for deciduous forests (e.g. Carpinus betulus, Acer capestre). The forest floor undergrowth floristic composition was also unsteady. There grew plant species typical of pine, beech and also oak-hornbeam forests. In order to analyze changes taking place in the forest and to resolve the syntaxsonomic diagnosis of forest community, in 1952 the floristic observations were started. The research was done in a grid of 177 research squares in which mapping of 42 species of vascular plants was made. The research was repeated between 1977-1982 and 2009-2013. Numerical analysis of species distribution in research squares was performed. During the 60 years, dynamic changes of the spatial structure of herb layer were observed. They showed the decline in species richness on large areas and the migrations of some species disappearing in the centre of oak-hornbeam forest to the nearby habitat of ash-alder forests. The main factors responsible for the changes are: 1) the progressive establishment of shady conditions of the forest floor due to increasing density of forest canopy, and 2) manmade deterioration of the soil moisture throughout the forest, associated with lowering of groundwater levels in surroundings.

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“Steppe” dry grasslands in Lower Vistula Valley – threat and active protection (nature reserve “Ostnicowe Parowy Gruczna”) Dariusz Kamiński1,* 1

Chair of Geobotany and Landscape Planning, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń *Corresponding author: [email protected]

Oral presentation Semi-natural dry grasslands (Festuco-Brometea) are rare habitats in humid climate and strongly anthropogenically changed landscape of Central Europe. In Poland they belong to extrazonal vegetation - in some cases relic, which can develop and survive only due to human influence (deforestration, extensive haymaking and grazing). They lie in the transitional zone between temperate oceanic and continental climates, far away from Mediterranean Basin and Eurasian Steppes. Therefore they are poorer in species richness and in syntaxonomic diversity in comparison with the south-eastern and western European grasslands. Apart from semi-natural habitats on the slopes of river valleys and foothills rich in calcium carbonate, they also develop on anthropogenically disturbed habitats – e.g. former croplands converted into pastures. Lower Vistula Valley, an important route of post-glacial plant migration, is a highly significant center for the presence of thermophilous plants species. „Ostnicowe Parowy Gruczna” nature reserve with an area of 23.79 ha was created in 1999 to preserve varied erosional clefts on the slopes of the Vistula River valley with unique xerothermic vegetation. It is located near the village of Gruczno, about 30 km north-east of the city of Bydgoszcz. The nature reserve area resembles an irregular strip with a length of 1.5 km and a width of 100-400 m. The steep slope of the Świecie Plateau scarp rises here ca. 40 m above the floor of the Fordon Valley, which is the first section in the Lower Vistula valley. The diverse morphology of the slopes results in diverse habitats with varied exposure (southern, eastern and north-eastern) and inclination of slopes ranging from 15° to 40°. Slopes consist of sand, loam and clay with a high content of calcium carbonate. Arable fields and buildings of the Gruczno village are located in the immediate vicinity of the nature reserve. Flora of the reserve is rich – there grow 361 vascular plant species, among them Stipa joannis, Scorzonera purpurea and Campanula sibirica. Abandonment of hay making and grazing due to they unprofitablity or in result of strict conservation protection causes the growth of thermophilous scrub and forest communities, resulting in the disappearance of rare, heliophytic plants and plants communities. Second factor strongly interacting with the decrerasing of dry grasslands is fertilization by surface runoff of fertile water from arable fields. In order to maintain the dry grasslands, it is necessary to carry out active protection. Active conservation in the reserve is carried out by the Bydgoszcz Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection under the “Active protection of Kuyavian and Pomeranian Xerothermic Grasslands” programme, and encompasses: mowing, tree and shrub cutting and ancient sheep breed “Wrzosówka” grazing.

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Pollen monitoring of the arboreal plant species in the İğneada Waterlogged Forests (Kırklareli-Turkey) for the period 2007-2016 Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç1,*, Hülya Caner2 Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Botany 34473, Bahçeköy-Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Management, Vefa-İstanbul, Turkey *Corresponding author: [email protected] 1 2

Oral presentation Key words: pollen trap, pollen influx, pollen monitoring, Lycopodium İğneada waterlogged forests have different vegetation types such as waterlogged forest, peat, bog and sand dunes plant communities, sand zone and wetlands. The main arboreal species composition of waterlogged forests is composed from the species of Acer campestre, Acer trautvetteri, Alnus glutinosa, Carpinus betulus, Carpinus orientalis, Fraxinus angustifolia, Fraxinus ornus, Juglans regia, Quercus cerris, Quercus frainetto, Quercus petraea, Quercus robur, Ulmus leavis and Ulmus minor. The results of pollen monitoring were obtained for six different sampling sites, close to each other in the waterlogged forests around Mert and Saka Lake. This research includes the monitoring of pollen deposition on the unit soil surface (cm2) across vegetation transitions from closed forest to open situations between September 2007 and 2016. The pollen traps transferred to the laboratory once in a year, Lycopodium spore tablets were used in accordance with European Pollen Monitoring Program and pollen slides were prepared in the Palynology Laboratory of Istanbul University. At least 200 pollen grains per preparation were counted and the results were shown at the pollen diagrams. The aim of this paper is to show the pollen influx (cm2/year) of the arboreal plant species of Igneada Waterlogged Forests and the relationships with temperature and precipitation for 9 years (2007-2016). As a result of this study, the annual pollen influx of Carpinus sp., Fraxinus sp., Hedera helix, Alnus sp., and Corylus sp., was higher respectively from 2007 to 2016. This study was supported by the Scientific Research Project Coordination Unit of Istanbul University Project number: FDP-2016-22671 and BEK-2017-24282.

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Pollen morphology of eight endemic Inula L. (Asteraceae) species in Turkey Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç1,*, Mehmet Yavuz Paksoy2 1

Department of Forest Botany, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey Department of Environmental Engineering, Munzur University, Tunceli, Turkey *Corresponding author: [email protected] 2

Poster presentation Key words: pollen morphology, Inula, endemic, Turkey. The pollen morphology of eight endemic species of the genus Inula L. (Asteraceae), I. macrocephala Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss., I. discoidea Boiss., I. sarana Boiss., I. sechmenii Hartvig & Strid, I. helenium subsp. orgyalis (Boiss.) Grierson, I. helenium subsp. vanensis Grierson, I. fragilis Boiss. & Hausskn. and I. anatolica Boiss. distributed in Turkey were investigated using light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in this study. The pollen grains have been brought to Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Forest Botany Department’s Palynology Laboratory and prepared pollen preparations according to the Wodehouse method. The measurement and diagnosis of the number of the pollen grains in the pollen preparations are performed by using x40, x100 immersion objective and 10x ocular in the computer assisted Lecia DM750 light microscope. With the light microscope, at least 50 measurements are performed for each pollen feature (P: Polar axis, E: Equatorial axis, Clg: Length of colpus, Clt: Width of colpus, Plg: Length of porus, Plt: Width of porus, t: Apocolpium, Ex: Exine thickness and length of the spines). A part of this pollen is kept in the fridge in +4˚C for the measurement with Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The size of the pollen, aperture type and the features of ornamentation are studied in detail by taking photos with both SEM and light microscope. The pollen grains of eight endemic Inula taxa have tricolporate aperture. Their pollen shape changes between prolate-spheroidal and oblate-spheroidal. Their pollen size is same and in the smallsized (10–25 μm) category. Also, the sculpture of these endemic Inula taxa is echinate.

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Monitoring of modern pollen deposition in the Ördübek Highland (Antalya-Turkey) Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç1,*, Çetin Şenkul2, Selin Uluçay1, Türkan Memiş2 1

Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Botany, Bahçeköy-Istanbul, Turkey

Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography, Isparta *Corresponding author: [email protected] 2

Poster presentation Key words: pollen trap, pollen influx, pollen monitoring, Lycopodium Ördübek Highland (1200 m) where this work was done is located on Susuz Mountain (2450 m.) on the Teke Peninsula in southwest Anatolia. Ördübek Highland is also located to the south of Lake Avlan, which is also in the Elmalı plain. The preliminary results of modern pollen deposition were obtained for six different sampling sites in the Ördübek Highland by the Tauber pollen traps and moss samples. This research includes modern pollen deposition between September 2015 and 2016. Also, surface sediments of Avlan Lake were investigated to compare the modern pollen deposition of traps and moss samples. Laboratory preparation of both trap samples and moss samples has been conducted in accordance with the Pollen Monitoring Programme Guidelines (Hicks et al.1996, Hicks et al. 1999). Lycopodium tablets were added to the trap and moss samples before the sample preparation. After preparation of pollen slides, at least 200 pollen grains per slide were counted and the results were shown at the pollen diagrams. When the annual pollen influx data obtained from Tauber pollen traps between 2015 and 2016 are compared in terms of sample areas (CJQ-1-T, CJQ-2-T, CJQ-3-T, CJQ-4-T, CJQ-5-T, CJQ6-T) in Ördübek Highland; maximum arboreal pollen influx was determined as 18115 cm2/year for trap CJQ-3-T. In this sample area, the maximum arboreal pollen influx belongs to Cedrus libani (8102 cm2/year), and followed by Pinus sp. (6038 cm2/year), Juniperus sp. (2943 cm2/year) and Quercus coccifera (803 cm2/year) respectively. When comparing the arboreal pollen influx data obtained from the moss samples (CJQ-1-Y, CJQ-2-Y, CJQ-3-Y, CJQ-4-Y, CJQ-5-Y, CJQ-6-Y) between the years 2015-2016, the highest arboreal pollen influx (7893 cm2/year) was found in the moss sample CJQ-4-Y. In this moss sample; maximum arboreal pollen influx belongs to Cedrus libani (3787 cm2/year), Pinus sp. (2702 cm/year) and Quercus coccifera (1404 cm2/year). In the pollen analysis carried out on the surface sediments taken from the Avlan Lake, which is closest to Ördübek Highland, arboreal pollen influx was detected as 25280 cm2/year. Within this pollen composition; Pinus sp. comes first with the pollen influx of 15535 cm2/year, and followed by Cedrus libani (7051 cm2/year), Abies cilicica (917 cm2/year), Castanea sativa (516 cm2/year) and Quercus cerris type (401 cm2/year). This study was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey-TUBITAK Project number: 214O249. References: Hicks S., Ammann B., Latałowa M., Pardoe H., Tinsley H. 1996. European Pollen Monitoring Programme, Project Description and Guidelines, Oulu University Press, Oulu, Finland. Hicks S., Tinsley H., Pardoe H., Cundill P., 1999, European pollen monitoring programme: supplement to the guidelines. Oulu University Press, Oulu, Finland.

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The representation of bisaccate pollen grains in modified-Tauber pollen trap samples and moss samples Heather Pardoe1,* Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, U.K. *Corresponding author: [email protected]

Oral presentation An understanding of the representation of specific taxa is fundamental to the interpretation of both surface pollen deposition and pollen found in Holocene deposits. This study examines the representation of several major taxa with bisaccate pollen grains (Pinus, Picea and Abies) in both modified Tauber traps and moss samples. The study draws on surface pollen data from across Europe including Finland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland and Wales. Where moss and pollen trap samples are collected from the same locality, bisaccate grains such as Pinus and Picea almost invariably occur at higher frequencies in moss samples than in traps (Pardoe et al. 2010). Provisional results indicate that the relationship between representation in traps and moss samples is not uniform but varies both spatially and temporally (for example, the difference between the frequency of Pinus pollen in traps and moss samples exhibits large variation from region to region (Fig.1). The reasons for this variation are examined. They may include factors such as the roughness and height of the collecting surface, the size and texture of the grain, the density and form of the surrounding vegetation, annual variation in pollen production and climatic factors such as the direction of the prevailing wind. It is intended that the initial results published in Pardoe et al. 2010. should be developed as a collaborative study. Its objectives are to produce recommendations on the method of moss sample collection and to consider the applications of the results to the interpretation of Holocene pollen data. References: Pardoe H.S., Giesecke T., van der Knaap W.O., Svitavská-Svobodová H., Kvavadze E.V., Panajiotidis S., Gerasimidis A., Pidek I.A., Zimny M., Świeta-Musznicka J., Latalowa M., Noryskiewicz A.M., Bozilova E., Tonkov S., Filipova-Marinova M.V., van Leeuwen J.F.N., Kalniņa L. 2010. Comparing pollen spectra from modified Tauber traps and moss samples: examples from a selection of woodlands across Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 19: 271–283.

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Comparison of diversity patterns in modern pollen and plant data across northern Europe Triin Reitalu1, *, H. John B. Birks2, Anne E. Bjune2, 3, Ansis Blaus1, Pille Gerhold4, Thomas Giesecke5, Aveliina Helm4, Jhonny C. Massante4, Isabelle Matthias5, J. Sakari Salonen6, Heikki Seppä6, Vivika Väli7 1

Institute of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia; Department of Biology and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; 3 Uni Research Climate, Allégaten 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway 4 Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, EE-51005 Tartu, Estonia; 5 Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Untere Karspule 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany; 6 Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, PO Box 64, FI - 00014 Helsinki, Finland; 7 Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5-D, EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia. *Corresponding author: [email protected] 2

Oral presentation Sedimentary pollen data provides potentially a valuable source of information about past vegetation diversity. However, diversity is seldom considered in palaeo-vegetation studies, mainly because the relationships between plant diversity and sedimentary proxy-based diversity are poorly understood. Present study aims to improve the methods for assessing and interpreting plant diversity from sedimentary pollen. We compare measures reflecting taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity for modern sediment pollen data with equivalent measures for vegetation data and clarify which measures of pollen diversity are adequate proxies of plant diversity. The stuy area covers northern Europe and western Siberia (52-80 º N ; 5-65 º E). The pollen sample dataset consists of 633 pollen surface samples from small and medium-sized lakes (24 ha on average). Plant data for the lake locations comes from pan-European plant distribution atlas with 50 × 50 km resolution. Standardized effects size of the mean pairwise distance (SES MPD) in the phylogenetic tree was used as a measure of the phylogenetic diversity. WorldClim climate data and a global land cover dataset are used to provide background environmental data for diversity estimates based on pollen and plant data. Species richness and pollen richness are significantly positively correlated (r=0.50, p