Pollen analysis of sediment profile WO1 from Wollingster See

A palynological study of a 15 m sediment core from the centre of Lake Wollingst (water depth 14,5 m) is presented. The pollen record shows 3 lateglacial thermomers, called Meiendorf, Bölling, Alleröd and the early holocene Friesland-Thermomer. The succession of forest vegetation taking place on the lake surroundings during the Holocene was typical for older moraine soils which are poor in nutrients: forest vegetation started with birch and pine, followed by hazel, oak and elm in the Boreal and by alder, lime and ash-tree in the Atlantic. Beech and hornbeam reached the area during Subboreal. However, due to the poor soils they spread out only after the Iron Age. With the deforestation during the medieval time the lake lost its character of a primeval forest lake. Lake Wollingst was oligotrophic since its origin at the end of the Pleniglacial. After medieval forest-clearing the lake has changed its quality of water particularly in connection with hemp- and flax-rotting. The modem sediments in this profile are completely disturbed. They contain reworked material, a lot of blue-green algae and remains of Bosmina longirostris indicating eutrophic conditions.

Supplement to: Müller, Helmut; Kleinmann, Angelika (1998): Palynologische Untersuchungen eines Sedimentprofiles aus dem Wollingster See. Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geobotanik in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg, In: Urban, K., Romahn, K. S., (Red.), Schutz und Erhaltung nährstoffarmer Stillgewässer am Beispiel des Wollingster Sees, 176 S., 57, 44-52

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.54341
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.34690.d001
Related Identifier References https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.34689.d001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.54341
Provenance
Creator Müller, Helmut; Kleinmann, Angelika; Merkt, Josef
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Müller, H H
Publication Year 2001
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 45846 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (8.866 LON, 53.460 LAT); Wollingster See, Lower Saxony, Germany