Modern and Holocene Pollen Assemblages from Some Small Arctic Lakes on Somerset Island, NWT, Canada

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Author: Gajewski, Konrad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1995
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Somerset Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.1995.1067; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589485710678?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589485710678?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003358940002442X

Abstract Modern pollen samples from 15 lakes along a north-south transect on western Somerset Island, NWT, Canada, show a decrease in pollen concentrations from the high arctic to the mid-arctic zone, but there are few differences in the pollen percentages between these sites. Long-distance transpor...