Biological responses to rapid climate change at the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition at Krakenes, western Norway

• Main Authors: Birks, HJB, Birks, HH
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2008
• Subjects: diversity; early Holocene; rapid climate change; biological response; glacier forelands; plant macrofossils; pollen; primary succession; rates of change; turnover; Younger Dryas; Norway; STORBREEN GLACIER FORELAND; SUB-ARCTIC VEGETATION; SOUTHERN-NORWAY; EARLY-HOLOCENE; SURFACE POLLEN; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES; LATE-QUATERNARY; JOTUNHEIMEN; COMMUNITIES; Arctic; Krakenes; Storbreen; Climate change; glacier
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/165437/

A fine-resolution pollen-stratigraphical study, supported by macrofossil analysis, has been made at Krakenes Lake, western Norway through the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition and the early Holocene. The median sample-age difference is 14 cal. yr for the period 9175-11 625 cal. yr BP. The chronology...