Quaternary geology research group
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geoecology
paleoclimate and environment
paleodiversity
Baltic Sea
chronology
Overview
The main research aim of the Quaternary groupis reconstruction of past ecosystems, vegetationhistory, climate and environmental change, bothnatural and manmade, at high temporal resolutionduring the last 15,000 years through multidisciplinary and multiproxy studies of natural archivessuch as lake, bog and marine sediments. The groupfocuses on better understanding the interactionsbetween Quaternary geo- and biosphere processes,in particular, addressing the following: Paleoclimate variation using multi-proxyanalyses (such as pollen and chironomidbased inference models) Paleo-biodiversity (terrestrial and aquatic), functional and phylogenetic diversitydynamics and relationships with climateand environmental changes Past human impact upon landscapes,waterbodies, vegetation structure andland-cover Postglacial retreat of the ice sheet Shoreline displacement of the Baltic SeaThe group holds a leading position in Quaternaryand palaeoecological studies in the Baltic realm.The main strengths of the group’s work are related to the high-resolution paleo-datasets of thegeographically and climatically constrained area.The group hosts several labs of biostratigraphy,dating, geochemistry, granulometry, and takesuse of the mass spectrometry lab for stable isotope geochemistry.
Important results
Strandberg, G.; Chen, J.; Fyfe, R.; Kjellstrom, E.; Lindstrom, J.; Poska, A.; Zhang, Q.; Gaillard, M.-J. (2023). Did the Bronze Age deforestation of Europe affect its climate? A regional climate model study using pollen-based land cover reconstructions. Climate of the Past, 19 (7), 1507−1530. DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-1507-2023.
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01652-4 - Amon, L., Wagner-Cremer, F., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. Spring onset and seasonality patterns during the Late Glacial period in the eastern Baltic region // Climate of the Past (2022) vol. 18,9, p. 2143-2153 : ill., map.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2143-2022 - Poska, A., Väli, V., Vassiljev, J., Alliksaar, T., Saarse, L. Timing and drivers of local to regional scale land-cover changes in the hemiboreal forest zone during the Holocene : a pollen-based study from South Estonia // Quaternary Science Reviews (2022) vol. 277, art. 107351.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107351 - Blaus, A., Reitalu, t., Poska, A., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. Mire plant diversity change over the last 10,000 years : Importance of isostatic land uplift, climate and local conditions // Journal of ecology (2021) vol. 109, 10, p. 3634-3651.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13742 - Talas, L., Stivrins, N., Veski, S., Tedersoo, L., Kisand, V. Sedimentary Ancient DNA (sedaDNA) Reveals Fungal Diversity and Environmental Drivers of Community Changes throughout the Holocene in the Present Boreal Lake Lielais Svētiņu (Eastern Latvia) // Microorganisms (2021) vol. 9, 4, art. 719, 21 p. : ill., map.
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040719 - Seidl, R., Honkaniemi, J., Aakala, T., Aleinikov, A., Angelstam, P., Bouchard, M., Boulanger, Y., Burton, P., De Grandpré, L., Gauthier, S., Hansen, W., Jepsen, J., Jõgiste, K., Kneeshaw, D. D., Kuuluvainen, T., Lisitsyna, O., Makoto, K., Mori, A. S., Pureswaran, D. S., Shorohova, E., Shubnitsina, E., Taylor, A. R., Vladimirova, N., Vodde, F., Senf, C. Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems // Ecography (2020) Vol. 43, Issue 7, p. 967-978.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04995 - Feurdean, A., Vannière, B., Finsinger, W., Poska, A., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. et al. Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe // Biogeosciences (2020) vol. 17, p. 1213−1230.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1213-2020 - Jeliazkov, A., Mijatovic, D., Chantepie, S., Reitalu, T. et al. A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space // Scientific data (2020) vol. 7, 1, art. 6 ; 12 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7 - Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Sommer, P., Stivrinš, N. et al. The Eurasian modern pollen database (EMPD), version 2 // Earth system science data (2020) vol. 12, 4, p. 2423−2445.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020 - Biurrun, I., Pielech, R., Dembicz, I., Gillet, F., Kozub, L., Marceno, C., Reitalu, T., Van Meerbeek, K., Guarino, R., Chytry, M., Pärtel, M., Helm, A., Ingerpuu, N. et al. Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats // Journal of vegetation science (2021) vol. 32, 4, art. ARTN e13050, 21 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13050 - Githumbi, E., Fyfe, R., Gaillard, M.-J., Trondman, A.-K., Mazier, F., Nielsen, A.-B., Poska, A., Sugita, S., Veski, S. et al. European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene : methodology, mapping and potentials // Earth system science data (2022) 14, 4, p. 1581–1619.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1581-2022 - Rosentau, A., Klemann, V., Bennike, O., Steffen, H., Wehr, J., Latinović, M., Bagge, M., Ojala, A., Berglund, M., Becher, G.P., Schoning, K., Hansson, A., Nielsen, L., Clemmensen, L.B., Hede, M.U., Kroon, A., Pejrup, M., Sander, L., Stattegger, K., Schwarzer, K., Lampe, R., Lampe, M., Uścinowicz, S., Bitinas, A., Grudzinska, I., Vassiljev, J., Nirgi, T., Kublitskiy, Y., Subetto, D. A holocene relative sea-level database for the Baltic Sea // Quaternary Science Reviews (2021) Vol. 266, Art. nr. 107071.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107071 - Reckermann, M., Omstedt, A., Soomere, T., Aigars, J., Parnell, K., Pons-Seres de Brauwer, C., Poska, A. et al. Human impacts and their interactions in the Baltic Sea region // Earth System Dynamics (2022) vol. 13, 1, p. 1-80.
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-1-2022 - Strandberg, G., Lindström, J., Poska, A., Zhang, Q., Fyfe, R., Githumbi, E., Kjellström, E., Mazier, F., Nielsen, A.B., Sugita, S., Trondman, A.-K., Woodbridge, J., Gaillard, M.-J. Mid-Holocene European climate revisited : new high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover // Quaternary science reviews (2022) vol. 281, art. 107431, 21 p. : ill., map.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107431 - Blaus, A., Reitalu, T., Veski, S. et al. Modern pollen–plant diversity relationships inform palaeoecological reconstructions of functional and phylogenetic diversity in calcareous fens // Frontiers in ecology and evolution (2020) vol. 8, 207, 22 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00207 - Harrison, S. P., Villegas-Diaz, R., Cruz-Silva, E., Gallagher, D., Kesner, D., Lincoln, P., Lisitsyna, O., Poska, A., Stivrins, N., Vassiljev, J. et al. The Reading Palaeofire Database : an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records // Earth system science data (2022) vol. 14, 3, p. 1109–1124.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1109-2022 - Blaus, A., Reitalu, T., Amon, L., Vassiljev, J., Alliksaar, T., Veski, S. From bog to fen : palaeoecological reconstruction of the development of a calcareous spring fen on Saaremaa, Estonia // Vegetation history and archaeobotany (2020) vol. 29, 3, p. 373–391 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00748-z - Zawiska, I., Dimante-Deimantovica, I., Luoto, T. P., Stivrinš, N. et al. Long-Term Consequences of Water Pumping on the Ecosystem Functioning of Lake Sekšu, Latvia // Water (2020) vol. 12, 5, art. 1459.
https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051459 - Hang, T., Veski, S., Vassiljev, J., Poska, A., Kriiska, A., Heinsalu, A. A new formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch in Estonia // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2020) vol. 69, 4, p. 269−280.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2020.15 - Stankevica, K., Vincevica-Gaile, Z., Klavins, M., Stivrinš, N., Kaup, E. et al. Accumulation of metals and changes in composition of freshwater lake organic sediments during the Holocene // Chemical geology (2020) vol. 539, art. 119502, 14 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119502 - Pirzamanbein, B., Poska, A., Lindström, J. Bayesian reconstruction of past land cover from pollen data : model robustness and sensitivity to auxiliary variables // Earth and Space Science (2020) Vol. 7, Issue 1, Art. e2018EA00057.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000547 - Kupryjanowicz, M., Filoc, M., Drzymulska, D., Poska, A., Suchora, M., Zarski, M., Mroczek, P. Environmental changes of the stadial/interstadial type during the Late Saalian (MIS-6) – Multi-proxy record at the Wola Starogrodzka site, central Poland // Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (2021) vol. 572, art. 110420, 14 p. : ill.
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https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105643 - Pidek, I. A., Poska, A., Hrynowiecka, A., Brzozowicz, D., Żarski, M. Two pollen-based methods of Eemian climate reconstruction employed in the study of the Żabieniec-Jagodne palaeolakes in central Poland // Quaternary International (2022) vol. 632, p. 21-35.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.09.014 - Amon, L., Blaus, A., Alliksaar, T., Heinsalu, A., Lapshina, E., Liiv, M., Reitalu, T., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. Postglacial flooding and vegetation history on the Ob River terrace, central Western Siberia based on the palaeoecological record from Lake Svetlenkoye // The Holocene (2020) vol. 30, 5, p. 618–631.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619895582 - Quamar, F., Stivrins, N. Modern pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs along an altitudinal transect in Jammu and Kashmir (Western Himalaya), India // Palynology (2021) vol. 45, 4, p. 669-684.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2021.1915402 - Väli, V., Odgaard, B.V., Väli, Ü., Poska, A. Pollen richness : a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters? // Vegetation history and archaeobotany (2022) vol. 31, p. 611-622.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-022-00879-w - Tõnno, I., Talas, L., Freiberg, R., Kisand, A., Belle, S., Stivrins, N., Alliksaar, T., Heinsalu, A., Veski, S., Kisand. V. Environmental drivers and abrupt changes of phytoplankton community in temperate lake Lielais Svētiņu, Eastern Latvia, over the last Post-Glacial period from 14.5 kyr // Quaternary science reviews (2021) vol. 263, art. 107006.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107006 - Vojtěch, A., Hicksa, S., Svobodová-Svitavská, H., Veski, S. et al. Patterns in recent and Holocene pollen accumulation rates across Europe - the Pollen Monitoring Programme Database as a tool for vegetation reconstruction // Biogeosciences (2021) vol. 18, 15, p. 4511−4534 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4511-2021 - Stivrins, N., Briede, A., Steinberga, D., Jasiunas, N., Jeskins, J., Kalnina, L., Maksims, A., Rendenieks. Z., Trasune, L. Natural and human-transformed vegetation and landscape reflected by modern pollen data in the boreonemoral zone of Northeastern Europe // Forests (2021) vol. 12, 9, art. 1166.
https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091166 - Karpin, V., Heinsalu, A., Virtasalo, J. J. Late Pleistocene iceberg scouring in the north-eastern Baltic Sea, west of Estonia // Marine geology (2021) vol. 438, art. 106537, 11 p. : ill, map.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106537 - Hints, R., Pajusaar, S., Urtson, K., Liiv, M., Kallaste, T. Metal enrichment in lithologically complex black shales : a case study from the Tremadocian of NE Estonia // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2021) vol. 70, 1, p. 36–50 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2021.04 https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/earth-1-2021-36-50_20210128130612.pdf - Stivrins, N., Belle, S., Trasune, L., Blaus, A., Salonen, S. Food availability and temperature optima shaped functional composition of chironomid assemblages during the Late Glacial–Holocene transition in Northern Europe // Quaternary science reviews (2021) vol. 266, art. 107083.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107083 - Casillas-Trasvina, A., Rogiers, B., Beerten, K., Pärn, J., Wouters, L., Walraevens, K. Using helium-4, tritium, carbon-14 and other hydrogeochemical evidence to evaluate the groundwater age distribution : the case of the Neogene aquifer, Belgium // Journal of hydrology X (2022) vol. 17, art. 100132, 19 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2022.100132 - Steinberga, D., Stivrinš, N. Fire frequency during the Holocene in central Latvia, northeastern Europe // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2021) vol. 70, 3, p. 127-139 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2021.09 - Vallner, L., Ivask, J., Marandi, A., Vaikmäe, R., Raidla, V., Raukas, A. Transient 3D simulation of 18O concentration by codes MODFLOW2005 and MT3DMS in a regionalscale aquifer system : an example from the Estonian Artesian Basin // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2020) vol. 69, 3, p. 154–174 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2020.11 - Vaikmäe, R., Pärn, J., Raidla, V., Ivask, J., Kaup, E., Martma, T. et al. Late Pleistocene and Holocene groundwater flow history in the Baltic Artesian Basin : a synthesis of numerical models and hydrogeochemical data // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2021) vol. 70, 3, p. 152-164 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2021.11 - Leshchinskiy, S. V., Kuzmin, Y. V., Boudin, M., Amon, L. Holes in the spinous processes of woolly mammoth vertebrae: spatial and temporal distribution, and the causes of pathology formation // The Journal of Quaternary Science (2021) vol. 36, 7, p. 1254-1267.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3360 - Vallius, H., Alliksaar, T., Suuroja, S. Changes in heavy metal concentrations in the sediments of the Gulf of Finland over two decades // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2022) vol. 71, 4, p. 177-188 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2022.12 - Stivrins, N., Trasune, L., Jasiunas, N., Kalnina, L., Briede, A., Maksims, A., Steinberga, D., Jeskins, J., Rendenieks, Z., Veski, S. et al. Indicative value and training set of freshwater organic-walled algal palynomorphs (non-pollen palynomorphs) // Quaternary science reviews (2022) vol. 282, art. 107450, 19 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107450 - Jeliazkov, A., Mijatovic, D., Chantepie, S., Andrew, N., Arlettaz, R., Barbaro, L., Barsoum, N., Bartonova, A., Reitalu, T. et al. Author correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space (Scientific Data, (2020), 7, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7) // Scientific Data (2020) vol. 7, 1, Art. 79.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0420-z - Chen, J., Haldorsen, S., Vaikmäe, R. Groundwater and global palaeoclimate signals // Quaternary international (2020) vol. 547, p. 1-6 : phot.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.028 - Kõrgmaa, V., Ruberg, S. Taming nitrate pollution in urban stream // Proceedings 39th IAHR World Congress. : International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022. p. 1145-1152.
https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221307 - Giesecke, T., Kuneš, P., Reitalu, T. Millennial to centennial vegetation change // Journal of vegetation science (2018) vol. 29, 3, p. 357–359 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12650 - Kriiska, A., Oras, E., Nirgi, T., Shanskiy, M., Heinsalu, A. et al. Environmental studies at the Kohtla-Vanaküla Iron age sacrificial site, North-East Estonia // Estonian journal of archaeology (2018) vol. 22, 1, p. 66–79 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/arch.2018.1.05 - Belle, S., Freiberg, R., Poska, A., Agasild, H., Alliksaar, T., Tõnno, I. Contrasting responses to long-term climate change of carbon flows to benthic consumers in two different sized lakes in the Baltic area // Quaternary science reviews (2018) vol. 187, p. 168-176 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.027 - Belle, S., Tõnno, I., Stivrinš, N., Freiberg, R., Veski, S. Abrupt rise in the contribution of CH4‐derived carbon to benthic secondary production of a shallow hemiboreal/boreal lake // Journal of quaternary science (2018) vol. 33, 8, p. 969-976 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3075 - Stivrinš, N., Liiv, M., Ozola, I., Reitalu, T. Carbon accumulation rate in a raised bog in Latvia, NE Europe, in relation to climate warming // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2018) vol. 67, 4, p. 247–258 : ill.
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9010047 - Stivrinš, N., Grudzinska, I., Elmi, K., Heinsalu, A., Veski, S. Determining reference conditions of hemiboreal lakes in Latvia, NE Europe: a palaeolimnological approach // Annales de limnologie - International journal of limnology (2018) vol. 54, art. 22, 12 p.
https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/2018014 http://www.ester.ee/record=b2246661*est - Liiv, M., Alliksaar, T., Freiberg, R., Heinsalu, A., Ott, I., Reitalu, T., Tõnno, I., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. Drastic changes in lake ecosystem development as a consequence of flax retting: a multiproxy palaeolimnological study of Lake Kooraste Linajärv, Estonia // Vegetation history and archaeobotany (2018) vol. 27, p. 437-451 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0650-y - Stivrinš, N., Liiv, M., Brown, A., Banerjea, R.Y., Heinsalu, A., Veski, S. Investigating the impact of anthropogenic land use on a hemiboreal lake ecosystem using carbon/nitrogen ratios and coupled-optical emission spectroscopy // Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (2019) vol. 518, p. 1-9 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.007 - Brown, A., Poska, A., Pluskowski, A. The environmental impact of cultural change: Palynological and quantitative land cover reconstructions for the last two millennia in northern Poland // Quaternary international (2019) vol. 522, p. 38-54 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.05.014 - Poska, A., Vassiljev, J., Vassiljev, J., Saarse, L. et al. Reading past landscapes: combining modern and historical records, maps, pollen-based vegetation reconstructions, and the socioeconomic background // Landscape ecology (2018) vol. 33, 4, p. 529–546 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0615-2 - Veski, R., Veski, S. Aliphatic dicarboxylic acids from oil shale organic matter - historic review // Oil shale (2019) vol. 36, 1, p. 76-95 : phot.
https://doi.org/10.3176/oil.2019.1.06 http://www.kirj.ee/public/oilshale_pdf/2019/issue_1/OS-2019-1-76-95.pdf - Liiv, M., Alliksaar, T., Amon, L., Freiberg, R., Heinsalu, A., Reitalu, T., Saarse, L., Seppä, H., Stivrinš, N., Tõnno, I., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S. Late glacial and early Holocene climate and environmental changes in the eastern Baltic area inferred from sediment C/N ratio // Journal of paleolimnology (2019) vol. 61, 1, p. 1–16 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0041-0 - Tõnno, I., Nauts, K., Belle, S., Alliksaar, T. et al. Holocene shifts in the primary producer community of large, shallow European Lake Peipsi, inferred from sediment pigment analysis // Journal of paleolimnology (2019) vol. 61, p. 403–417 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00067-3 - Pärn, J., Raidla, V., Ivask, J., Kaup, E., Martma, T., Vaikmäe, R. et al. Dating of glacial palaeogroundwater in the Ordovician-Cambrian aquifer system, northern Baltic Artesian Basin // Applied geochemistry (2019) vol. 102, p. 64-76 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.01.004 - Raidla, V., Pärn, J., Schloemer, S., Aeschbach, V., Czuppon, G., Ivask, J., Marandi, A., Sepp, H., Vaikmäe, R., Kirsimäe, K. Origin and formation of methane in groundwater of glacial origin from the Cambrian-Vendian aquifer system in Estonia // Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (2019) vol. 251, p. 247-264 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.029 - Stivrinš, N., Cerina, A., Galka, M., Heinsalu, A., Veski, S. et al. Large herbivore population and vegetation dynamics 14,600–8300 years ago in central Latvia, northeastern Europe // Review of palaeobotany and palynology (2019) vol. 266, p. 42-51 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.04.005 - Sterckx, A., Lemieux, J-M., Vaikmäe, R. Assessment of paleo-recharge under the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet and its impact on regional groundwater flow in the northern Baltic Artesian Basin using numerical model // Hydrogeology journal (2018) vol. 26, 8, p. 2793−2810 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-018-1838-7 - Tyler, T., Bengtsson, F., Dahlberg, C.J., Lönnell, N., Hallingbäck, T., Reitalu, T. Determinants of bryophyte species composition and diversity on the Great Alvar of Öland, Sweden // Journal of bryology (2018) vol. 40, 1, p. 12-30 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2017.1412387 - Pärn, J., Affolter, S., Ivask, J.; Kirsimäe, K., Martma, T., Raidla, V., Vaikmäe, R. et al. Redox zonation and organic matter oxidation in palaeogroundwater of glacial origin from the Baltic Artesian Basin // Chemical geology (2018) vol. 488, p. 149-161 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.027 - Latalowa, M., Swieta-Musznicka, J., Slowinski, M., Stivrins, N. et al. Abrupt Alnus population decline at the end of the first millennium CE in Europe – The event ecology, possible causes and implications // The Holocene (2019) vol. 29, 8, p. 1335-1349 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619846978 - Pirzamanbein, B., Lindström, J., Poska, A., Gaillard, M.-J. Modelling spatial compositional data : reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties // Spatial statistics (2018) vol. 24, p. 14-31 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2018.03.005 - Stivrins, N., Soininen, J., Tõnnod, I., Veski, S. et al. Towards understanding the abundance of non-pollen palynomorphs: a comparison of fossil algae, algal pigments and sedaDNA from temperate lake sediments // Review of palaeobotany and palynology (2018) vol. 249, p. 9-15 : ill.
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