Plant Communities of Archaeological Sites, Abandoned Dwellings, and Trampled Tundra in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: A Multivariate Analysis

• Main Author: Bruce C. Forbes
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Key words; Thule culture; phytoarchaeology; High Arctic; trampling; anthropogenic disturbance; growth forms; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Cornwallis; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.5530; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic49-2-141.pdf

ABSTRACT. Arctic terrestrial ecosystems subjected to anthropogenic disturbance return to their original state only slowly, if at all. Investigations of abandoned settlements on three islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago have detected striking similarities among contemporary and ancient...