Postglacial vegetation community change over an elevational gradient on the western Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: pollen records from Sunken Island and Choquette Lakes

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Scott Anderson, R., Berg, Edward, Williams, Chris, Clark, Tami
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Caribou Hills; Dwarf birch; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3102; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.3102; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.3102; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/jqs.3102

Abstract The Kenai Peninsula of south‐central Alaska is a region of high topographic diversity with a complex glacial history. The sedimentary record of two small lakes [Sunken Island (SIL; 76 m a.s.l.) in the Kenai Lowlands; Choquette (CL; 527 m a.s.l.) in the Caribou Hills upland] exemplifies the...