The research was led by Enikő Magyari, a researcher at the Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, ELTE Faculty of Science, and head of the DOMINO-CLIMATE Élvonal project.
The research was led by Enikő Magyari, a researcher at the Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, ELTE Faculty of Science, and head of the DOMINO-CLIMATE Élvonal project.
Lake Prokoško, covering just 4.8 hectares, lies at an elevation of 1,670 metres in the Vranica Mountains, part of the Dinaric Alps. Over thousands of years, remains from the surrounding landscape and the lake's own ecosystem accumulated in its bottom sediments, making it possible to reconstruct the region's environmental and climatic history in detail.
Two studies by ELTE researchers published in 2026 examined different periods represented in the same sediment sequence. Enikő Magyari, head of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at ELTE, doctoral researcher Eszter Tombor, and their colleagues analysed the rapid changes that occurred approximately 16,000–10,000 years ago, during the Late Glacial period and the beginning of the Holocene. Their findings were published in the prestigious journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
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Panoramic view of Lake Prokoško and the Vranica Mountains at an elevation of 1,670 metres, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The lake is now overgrown with aquatic vegetation. (Photo Credit: Gusztáv Jakab)
