Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula
Pollen and plant macrofossil records from two lakes on northernmost Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland, reflect a progressive closing of the vegetation cover during the early Holocene. This development was connected with the succession from an initial herb-tundra phase characterized by Oxyria digyna,...
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crsagepubl:10.1191/095968398669995117 2024-04-07T07:51:31+00:00 Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula Rundgren, Mats 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/095968398669995117 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/095968398669995117 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license The Holocene volume 8, issue 5, page 553-564 ISSN 0959-6836 1477-0911 Paleontology Earth-Surface Processes Ecology Archeology Global and Planetary Change journal-article 1998 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1191/095968398669995117 2024-03-08T03:21:36Z Pollen and plant macrofossil records from two lakes on northernmost Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland, reflect a progressive closing of the vegetation cover during the early Holocene. This development was connected with the succession from an initial herb-tundra phase characterized by Oxyria digyna, Poaceae and Caryophyllaceae, through an intermediate dwarf-shrub phase dominated by Salix and Empetrum nigrum,toa shrub and dwarf-shrub phase with Juniperus communis, Betula nana, Salix and Poaceae. This development is similar to that recorded at other sites in northern Iceland, both with respect to the taxa involved and the timing of transitions between successional phases, which suggests that early-Holocene vegetational development in northern Iceland was forced by broad-scale climatic changes. The palaeobotanical data suggest a gradual early-Holocene warming in northern Iceland, which probably was connected with northward displacements of Atlan tic waters and North Atlantic air masses. The deposition of the Saksunarvatn ash at 9000 BP caused a transitory phase of vegetational succession on northernmost Skagi. Article in Journal/Newspaper Betula nana Empetrum nigrum Iceland North Atlantic Tundra SAGE Publications Saksunarvatn ENVELOPE(-7.150,-7.150,62.233,62.233) The Holocene 8 5 553 564 |
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Pollen and plant macrofossil records from two lakes on northernmost Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland, reflect a progressive closing of the vegetation cover during the early Holocene. This development was connected with the succession from an initial herb-tundra phase characterized by Oxyria digyna, Poaceae and Caryophyllaceae, through an intermediate dwarf-shrub phase dominated by Salix and Empetrum nigrum,toa shrub and dwarf-shrub phase with Juniperus communis, Betula nana, Salix and Poaceae. This development is similar to that recorded at other sites in northern Iceland, both with respect to the taxa involved and the timing of transitions between successional phases, which suggests that early-Holocene vegetational development in northern Iceland was forced by broad-scale climatic changes. The palaeobotanical data suggest a gradual early-Holocene warming in northern Iceland, which probably was connected with northward displacements of Atlan tic waters and North Atlantic air masses. The deposition of the Saksunarvatn ash at 9000 BP caused a transitory phase of vegetational succession on northernmost Skagi. |
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Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula |
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Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula |
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Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula |
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Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula |
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Early-Holocene vegetation of northern Iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the Skagi peninsula |
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early-holocene vegetation of northern iceland: pollen and plant macrofossil evidence from the skagi peninsula |
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