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Macrofossil evidence of Late Holocene presence of Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. in Central-Eastern Europe (Poland) and East Africa (Tanzania)

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dc.creator Gałka, Mariusz
dc.creator Bergonzini, Laurent
dc.creator Williamson, David
dc.creator Majule, Amos
dc.creator Masao, Catherine A.
dc.creator Huguet, Arnaud
dc.date 2016-06-26T19:41:12Z
dc.date 2016-06-26T19:41:12Z
dc.date 2015
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:18:00Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:18:00Z
dc.identifier Gałka, M., Bergonzini, L., Williamson, D., Majule, A., Masao, C. and Huguet, A., 2015. Macrofossil evidence of Late Holocene presence of Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. in central-eastern Europe (Poland) and East Africa (Tanzania). Quaternary International, 386, pp.186-190.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2804
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.058
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2804
dc.description To date, the seeds of waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) were only found in Europe, in sediments of the Eemian and Mazovian Interglacials. The absence of A. vesiculosa seeds in European Holocene deposits is probably due to unfavorable climatic conditions, i.e. lower temperature, during this period: in temperate zones, A. vesiculosa reproduces mainly in a vegetative way; it rarely blooms and only occasionally produces seeds. In this paper, subfossil seeds of A. vesiculosa were identified in two peat bogs: one (Sucha Kobyła) in SE Poland and another one (Kyambangunguru) in SW Tanzania. Single seeds of this plant were found in a peat layer from the Polish site formed after 1600 AD as well as in sediments accumulated around 440 AD in the Tanzanian one. To our knowledge, this is the first time that seeds of A. vesiculosa are found in Holocene deposits in the world. Our findings provide new data on the distribution of A. vesiculosa over the Late Holocene.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.subject Holocene
dc.subject Plant macrofossil
dc.subject Carnivorous plant
dc.subject Waterwheel plant
dc.subject Peat
dc.title Macrofossil evidence of Late Holocene presence of Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. in Central-Eastern Europe (Poland) and East Africa (Tanzania)
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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