Seeing the wood for the trees. Rethinking 700 years of vegetation change in Iceland using meta-analysis of palaeoecological datasets and landscape scale model reconstructions

• Main Author: Koster, Willem Wilmer
• Other Authors: Streeter, Richard Thomas
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of St Andrews 2023
• Subjects: Iceland; Palynology; Pollen modelling; Multiple scenario approach; Vegetation reconstruction model; Spatial bias model; Chronological quality; Pollen productivity estimates; Relative pollen productivity; Mývatn; Skálholt
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/28083; https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/558

The colonisation of Iceland around 870 A.D. saw the influx of Norse settlers to a previously uninhabited island, resulting in large-scale ecological changes. Human impacts on the landscape vary in time and are spatially complex, making it difficult to accurately assess how Iceland was affected. To i...