New Aspects of High-Mountain Palaeobiogeography: A Synthesis of Data from Forefields of Receding Glaciers and Ice Patches in the Tärna and Kebnekaise Mountains, Swedish Lapland

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Kullman, Leif, Öberg, Lisa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2015
• Subjects: glaciers; tree growth; megafossils; macrofossils; Holocene; radiocarbon dating; climate change; Swedish Scandes; croissance des arbres; mégafossiles; macrofossiles; Holocène; datation par le carbone 14; changement climatique; Scandes suédoises; Découverte; Retour; Tärna; Arctic; Laponie; Lapland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67522

Recent recession of high-mountain glacier ice and perennial snow and ice patches has exposed megafossil and macrofossil tree remnants and peat, offering a new source of Holocene high alpine vegetation history in the Scandes. Radiocarbon dates of 90 tree megafossils from Swedish Lapland, 29 of which...