Research article E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 69, 121–137, 2020 https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-121-2020 © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Anthropogenic and climate signals in late-Holocene peat layers of an ombrotrophic bog in the Styrian Enns valley (Austrian Alps) Wolfgang Knierzinger1, Ruth Drescher-Schneider2, Klaus-Holger Knorr3, Simon Drollinger4, Andreas Limbeck5, Lukas Brunnbauer5, Felix Horak5, Daniela Festi6, and Michael Wagreich1 1Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria 2Schillingsdorfer Straße 27, 8010 Kainbach bei Graz, Austria 3Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry Group, Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster, Germany 4Department of Physical Geography, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 5, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 5Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Technical University Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria 6Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Correspondence: Wolfgang Knierzinger (
[email protected]) Relevant dates: Received: 12 February 2020 – Revised: 24 July 2020 – Accepted: 30 July 2020 – Published: 25 September 2020 How to cite: Knierzinger, W., Drescher-Schneider, R., Knorr, K.-H., Drollinger, S., Limbeck, A., Brunnbauer, L., Horak, F., Festi, D., and Wagreich, M.: Anthropogenic and climate signals in late-Holocene peat layers of an ombrotrophic bog in the Styrian Enns valley (Austrian Alps), E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 69, 121–137, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-121-2020, 2020. Abstract: Using peat bogs as palaeoenvironmental archives is a well-established practice for reconstructing changing climate and anthropogenic activity in the past.