Rivers, marshes & farmlands. Research perspectives on the ecological history of Hungary through examples of Bodrogköz (Ne-Hungary)
Rivers, marshes & farmlands. Research perspectives on the ecological history of Hungary through examples of Bodrogköz (Ne-Hungary)

Summary/Abstract: In the last millennium one of the most important changes in the natural environment of the Great Hungarian Plain was the process of river regulation. Although the Plain was formed by the alluvial deposits of two main rivers, the Danube and the Tisza, the former runs at the edge of the lowland, while the latter flows right through the middle of it. Consequently, the regulation of the Tisza and its tributaries had a much more widespread environmental impact. The process deserves a closer look from the point of view of historical ecology/environmental history. Regulation works initiated a dramatic change in the adaptation strategies of people living along the rivers.

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