Forest zones in the central part of the Volga Upland during the Holocene and their correlation with adjacent regions

N.V. Blagoveshchenskaya

Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, 432017 Russia

E-mail: globularia@mail.ru

Received April 16, 2018


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DOI: 10.26907/2542-064X.2019.1.108-127

For citation: Blagoveshchenskaya N.V. Forest zones in the central part of the Volga Upland during the Holocene and their correlation with adjacent regions. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Estestvennye Nauki, 2019, vol. 161, no. 1, pp. 108–127. doi: 10.26907/2542-064X.2019.1.108-127. (In Russian)

Abstract

Vegetation cover evolution in the central part of the Volga Upland during the Holocene has been very poorly studied until recently. Almost no information is available on the correlation of forest areas in the Holocene with adjacent regions. This fact determined the relevance of our research, in the course of which 54 bogs have been studied. A whole complex of methods has been used: field study, spore and pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, as well as extrapolation and geomorphological methods. As a result, six subtypes of spore-pollen diagrams, which characterize six natural regions of the central part of the Volga Upland, have been distinguished. The entire territory is characterized by the South Russian type of diagrams. The obtained spore-pollen and radiocarbon data made it possible to carry out a detailed periodization of the Holocene in the studied territory and to identify 12 forest zones. The correlation analysis with the adjacent territories showed the greatest similarity with the forest zones of the Oka-Don Plain and the southern spurs of the Volga Upland (South Russian type of diagrams). Certain features of similarity have been observed with the Urals (Southern Ural type of diagrams). The lowest similarity in the evolution of vegetation during the Holocene has been observed with the territories located to the north (central part of the East European Plain), northwest (Central Black Earth region), and north-east (Trans-Kama region), all characterized by the Central Russian type of diagrams.

The findings are important for phytogeographical and geobotanical zoning of the territory of Russia.

Keywords: Holocene, history of vegetation, spore-pollen complexes, Volga Upland

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