Ornithogenic vegetation: how significant has the seabird influence been on the Aleutian Island vegetation during the Holocene?

• Main Authors: Smyshlyaeva, Olesya, Severova, Elena, Krylovich, Olga, Kuzmicheva, Evgeniya, Savinetsky, Arkady, West, Dixie, Hatfield, Virginia
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Authorea, Inc. 2021
• Subjects: Guano; Shemya Island; Aleutian Island; Tundra; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.161969207.75819204/v1

We have studied the long- and short-term periods of seabird influence on coastal vegetation. In the Aleutian Islands during the Holocene, terrestrial predators were virtually absent; as a result, large seabird colonies thrived along the coasts or across entire islands. Bird guano enriches the soil w...