Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Ice Sheet; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.9746; http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/projects/BIOME_6000/SpecialIssue2/BIOME2_downloads/tarasov.pdf

Biome reconstructions for northern Eurasia 2 1 Pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia were used to reconstruct the vegetation of the last glacial maximum (LGM: 18,000±2000 14C yr B.P.) using an objective quantitative method for interpreting pollen data in terms of the biomes they represent (Prentice et al., 1996). The results confirm previous qualitative vegetation reconstructions at the LGM but provide a more comprehensive analysis of the data. 2 Tundra dominated a large area of northern Eurasia (north of 57°N) to the west, south and east of the Scandinavian ice sheet at the LGM.