Climate change and human settlement as drivers of late-Holocene vegetational change in the Faroe Islands

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Hannon, Gina E., Bradshaw, Richard H. W., Bradshaw, Emily G., Snowball, Ian, Wastegård, Stefan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2005
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Eysturoy; Faroe Islands; Sandoy; Streymoy
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl840rp; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/0959683605hl840rp

Changes in Faroese land surfaces during the late Holocene reflect intimate interactions between cultural and environmental development. Analyses of fossil wood, pollen and plant macrofossils indicate that the present open landscape replaced shrubby vegetation that was present from c. 6000 BC Up to C...