Diatom blooms and associated vegetation shifts in a subarctic peatland: responses to distant volcanic eruptions?

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Kokfelt, U., Muscheler, R., Mellström, A., Struyf, E., Rundgren, M., Wastegård, S., Hammarlund, D.
• Other Authors: Swedish Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Laki; Ice; Northern Sweden; permafrost; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2898; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.2898; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.2898

ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis that rich occurrences of diatoms observed at transitions between major peat units representing different vegetation communities in a peat sequence from subarctic northern Sweden reflect responses to acid deposition from the Samalas AD 1257 and Laki AD 1783/1784 erupti...