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Central European Perspectives in Lake Shore Rehabilitation

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When the ice shield retreated at the end of the last glaciation period, about 13,000 years ago, it left a great number of water-filled depressions behind it. The smaller ones silted up quickly, but the majority persisted as lakes. The lakes attracted humans since the younger Neolithic period. By and by, humans became a significant factor in the dynamics of the littoral zone of lakes: clearing of riverine woods and upland forests in the catchment area, leading to soil erosion and nutrient input into the lakes, took place in the Bronze Age. Damming of lakes for operating mills and lowering lake water levels to improve agricultural use began in the Middle Ages and culminated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Constructing promenades and highways, marinas and bathing places, land fills, and lake walls is a feature of the post-war impacts of demographic development, tourism, and leisure pursuits.

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Ostendorp, W. (1999). Central European Perspectives in Lake Shore Rehabilitation. In: Streever, W. (eds) An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4683-8_7

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