Recent environmental change and atmospheric contamination on Svalbard as recorded in lake sediments - modern limnology, vegetation, and pollen deposition

• Main Authors: Birks, HJB, Monteith, DT, Rose, NL, Jones, VJ, Peglar, SM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 2004
• Subjects: flora; lakes; pollen; Svalbard; vegetation; water chemistry; ASSEMBLAGES; SPITSBERGEN; Four Lakes; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/184421/

Twenty-four lakes on Svalbard were sampled for palaeolimnological studies and are described in terms of their geographical location, catchment characteristics, water chemistry, and flora. No sediment could be retrieved from one of the lakes. There is a close correlation, as detected by redundancy an...