Palynology of two 4500 year old skua-mounds of the Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus (L.)) in Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Van Der Knaap, W. O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1988
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Edgeøya; Arctic skua; Polar Research; Stercorarius parasiticus; Tundra; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2417; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v6i1.6845

Skuamounds are peaty hillocks up to 70 cm high used by Arctic Skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus (L.)) for surveying their breeding territory. Well-developed skua-mounds in Svalbard can be considered as small guanogenic bogs', because the peat formation depends on manuring by birds and the water-t...