Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands: climate change, pedogenesis, or human impact?

• Main Authors: Lawson, IT, Church, MJ, Edwards, KJ, Cook, G, Dugmore, AJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society of Edinburgh 2007
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Sandoy; Faroes
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/77443/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/77443/1/Lawson%20et%20al%202007%20EESTRSE%20peat%20initiation.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/%2010.1017/S1755691007000035

As an isolated island group lying off the NW European mainland which was uninhabited until the mid-first millennium AD, the Faroes offer a unique opportunity to study natural processes of Holocene ecosystem development in a region where anthropogenic activity is usually a complicating factor. In thi...