PALAEOCLIMATE RESEARCH OF MOUNTANEOUS ECOSYSTEMS BY USING THE METHOD OF INTEGRATED GROUP BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Methodological issues of climate change reconstruction in different Holocene periods are considered by the method of complex group biological analysis of peat and sapropel deposits. The possibilities of the method are demonstrated by reconstructing the climate of the Carpathian and the Altai mountain systems. For the Skolevsky Beskids of the Carpathians, paleoclimatic scenarios were prepared in order to clarify the climatic conditions during the periods of mass terracing of mountain slopes. A climatic paleoscenario was built for the Western Altai to forecast the safety of the bronze barrows with permafrost inside designs.

Keywords

• paleoclimate
• climate evolution
• biodiversity
• terrace systems