Pollen based Inferences of Post-glacial Vegetation and Paleoclimate Change on Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Author: Iamonaco, John-Paul
• Other Authors: Finkelstein, Sarah A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic paleoecology; Holocene paleoclimates; Pollen analysis; Vegetation history; Lake sediments; Herb tundra; Holocene Thermal Maximum; Neoglacial cooling; Medieval Warm Period; 0426; Arctic; Canada; Melville Peninsula; Nunavut; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30637

Pollen analysis of a sediment core from Lake SP02, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada provides a ~6300 year record of post-glacial vegetation and climate change. Dominant local and regional taxa identified include Cyperaceae, Ericaceae, Artemisia, Salix, and Oxyria. Fossil pollen assemblages, polle...