Learning from the past: seasonality and decadal oscillations in Svalbard during the Holocene Climate Optimum derived from sub-fossil bivalve shells (A. islandica).

• Main Authors: Beierlein, Lars, Brey, Thomas, Salvigsen, O.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Raised Beach; Dicksonfjorden; Arctica islandica; Climate change; Global warming; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; North Atlantic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33193/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41698

Future global warming will impact coastal marine ecosystems significantly. These changes are expected to be particularly dramatic in the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions which have experienced similar conditions during warm periods in the past (e.g., Holocene Optimum, mid-Pliocene Warm Period). Palaeo-...