Late Pleistocene and Holocene Vegetation and Climate on the Taymyr Lowland, Northern Siberia

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Andreev, Andrei A., Siegert, Christine, Klimanov, Vladimir A., Derevyagin, Aleksandr Yu., Shilova, Galina N., Melles, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2002
• Subjects: Taymyr; Betula nana; Taymyr Peninsula; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.2001.2302; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589401923026?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589401923026?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400010656

Abstract Pollen records from perennially frozen sequences provide vegetation and climate reconstruction for the last 48,000 14 C years in the central part of Taymyr Peninsula. Open larch forest with Alnus fruticosa and Betula nana grew during the Kargin (Middle Weichselian) Interstade, ca. 48,000–25...