A multi-proxy palaeoecological study of Alanen Laanijarvi, a boreal-forest lake in Swedish Lapland

• Main Authors: Heinrichs, ML, Peglar, SM, Bigler, C, Birks, HJB
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS 2005
• Subjects: TREE-LINE AREA; HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; NORTHERN SWEDEN; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CHIRONOMID ASSEMBLAGES; AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; NORTHWEST-TERRITORIES; MEGAFOSSIL EVIDENCE; VEGETATION HISTORY; Alanen; Northwest Territories; Northern Sweden; Lapland
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/162217/

Chironomids, pollen and spores were used to reconstruct Holocene aquatic and terrestrial environments at Alanen Laanijarvi, northern Sweden. Chironomid analysis revealed a pattern of limnological evolution from oligotrophic conditions in a relatively deep lake during 8.6 to 5.5 cal. ka BP, followed...