Two millennia of climate change, wildfires, and caribou hunting in west Greenland

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Strunk, Astrid, Krüger, Sascha, Jensen, Jens Fog, Olsen, Jesper, Jessen, Catherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2024
• Subjects: Climate Research; caribou hunting; Inuit cultures; multiproxy reconstruction; paleoenvironment; palynology; West Greenland; wildfires; Aasivissuit; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; inuit; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/b23b66e0-ecd8-4fff-b38d-7cae9961ba5f; https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241247301

Changing climatic conditions is a perpetual circumstance for mankind. In this study, we investigate local environmental and climatic changes near Kangerlussuaq, west Greenland. Our reconstruction is based on a lake sediment core and methods include chemical proxies and a palynological analysis. The...