Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation changes in the WigryNational Park, NE Poland – new pollen data from three small dystrophic lakes

The main phases of the Late Gla cial and Ho lo cene de vel op ment of veg e ta tion in the Wigry Na tional Park were re con - structed based on the pol len anal y sis of sed i ments from three small dystrophic lakes (Lake Suchar Wielki, Lake Suchar II and Lake OElepe). At the cur rent stage of re search, the age of the stud ied de pos its was de ter mined by AMS radio car bon dat ing of few sam ples only. This meant that the chro nol ogy of the in ves ti gated pro files had to be es ti mated also in di rectly us ing their palynological cor re la tion with a ra dio met ri cally well-dated pro file from Lake Wigry. The ob tained pol len data con firmed the pic ture of the postglacial veg e ta tion changes of the Wigry Na tional Park, which was based on ear lier stud ies of Lake Wigry. Fur ther more, it doc u mented the ex is tence, mainly in the Preboreal and At - lan tic chronozones, of tem po rary changes in veg e ta tion, which might be a re ac tion to a short-lived cold fluc tu a tions of cli mate.