Shaping Wetlands: 250 Years of Human Impact in Two Contrasting Landscapes – A Comparative Analysis of the Rhinluch Peatlands and the Lower Havel River Floodplain

Anne Köhler¹, Marie Kaniecki¹, Rita Gudermann², William J. Fletcher³, Anja Linstädter⁴, Natascha Mehler⁵, Ulrike Werban⁶, Christoph Zielhofer¹

1: Leipzig Universtiy, Institute for Geography, Leipzig, Germany; 2: Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Contemporary History and Archive, Erkner, Germany; 3: University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development, Manchester, UK; 4: Potsdam University, Biodiversity Research / Systematic Botany, Potsdam, Germany; 5: Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, Tübingen, Germany; 6: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany