Dynamic early Holocene vegetation development on the Faroe Islands inferred from high-resolution plant macrofossil and pollen data

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hannon, Gina E., Rundgren, Mats, Jessen, Catherine A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Faroe Islands; Sandoy; Betula nana; Faroes; Salix herbacea; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2009.11.003; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589409001331?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589409001331?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400014794

Vegetation dynamics during the earliest part of the Holocene (11,250"10,250"cal yr BP) have been reconstructed from a lacustrine sequence on Sandoy, the Faroe Islands, using detailed plant macrofossil and pollen evidence. The plant macrofossils suggest the initial vegetation was sparse her...