Holocene vegetational history and climatic change in west Spitsbergen - plant macrofossils from Skardtjørna, an Arctic lake

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Author: Birks, Hilary H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1991
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Svalbard; Cassiope hypnoides; Cassiope tetragona; Salix herbacea; Saxifraga flagellaris; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968369100100303; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968369100100303

Macrofossil analyses of a 335 cm-long core from Skardtjørna, a small lake on the west coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, are presented. The known processes of deposition of plant remains to arctic lake sediments are summarised, and used in the interpretation of the vegetation history at Skardtjørna. Th...