Dynamics of Vegetation Cover in the Late Holocene in Lake Karakel – Teberda Valley Area (According to Palynological Data)

The paper deals with results of fossil pollen spectra analysis for bottom sediments in the lake Karakel in Central Caucasus in the Teberda State Reservation. Main feathers of the vegetation dynamics during last 2300 years, i.e., Subatlantic period of Holocene, are shown. Analysis of the sediments of lake Karakel leads to a conclusion that vegetation of this region had a few transformation stages from the prevailing meadow to the mixed coniferous-broad-leaved formations which were then partly substituted by smallleaved forests about 200 years ago under human impact.