Long-term ecosystem dynamics of a small lake and its catchment in west Greenland

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Presthus Heggen, Marianne, Birks, Hilary H., Anderson, N. John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Greenland; Betula nana; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683610371995; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683610371995

We investigated the interplay between climate and the Holocene ecological development of a small low-Arctic lake and its catchment. The remains of terrestrial and aquatic oribatid mites, plant macrofossils, and other invertebrates in a sediment core from Lake SS16 in west Greenland revealed its pala...