Plant Communities of Archaeological Sites, Abandoned Dwellings, and Trampled Tundra in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: A Multivariate Analysis

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Forbes, Bruce C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1996
• Subjects: Thule culture; phytoarchaeology; High Arctic; trampling; anthropogenic disturbance; growth forms; ordination; culture de Thulé; phytoarchéologie; Extrême-Arctique; dommages dus au piétinement; perturbation anthropique; formes de croissance; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Cornwallis; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Baffin; Culture de Thulé; Terre de Baffin; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64247

Arctic terrestrial ecosystems subjected to anthropogenic disturbance return to their original state only slowly, if at all. Investigations of abandoned settlements on three islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago have detected striking similarities among contemporary and ancient human set...