Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology

Birks, Hilary H.; Birks, H. J. B.

doi:10.1007/s00334-006-0066-6

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“…Limiting factors to vegetational development are especially relevant when applying pollen and plant macrofossil analyses to palaeotemperature reconstructions and plant responses to climatic change (Birks and Birks 2006;Aarnes et al 2012).…”

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Living on the good soil: relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Mortensen

Henriksen

Bennike

2014

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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The immigration of woody plants, especially Betula (tree birch), is examined in relation to geomorphological regions in a compilation of Late-glacial plant macrofossil records from Denmark. The immigration of trees led to a large ecological transformation of the landscape and had a major effect on the flora and fauna available to Palaeolithic people. We show that soil type was a controlling factor in the development of vegetation during the Allerød and Younger Dryas periods. Following the first immigration of trees during the Allerød period, woods became established in the eastern part of Denmark, where ice advances from the Baltic had deposited calcareous and clayey sediments. The western and northern parts of Denmark that are characterised by more sandy and noncalcareous sediments remained treeless throughout the whole Late-glacial period. Finds from the Bromme Culture are concentrated in the region which was wooded, suggesting that the regional variable environment allowed local adaptations using the diverse resources available.

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Living on the good soil: relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Mortensen

Henriksen

Bennike

2014

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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“…Furthermore, coastal sediments also preserve a wide array of other morphological, biogeochemical, and physical indicators of environmental change. Multiproxy studies, although not without their own challenges (16), can be used to provide more holistic overviews of ecosystem change because different sources of proxy data provide additional information on environmental change (3).…”

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Marine sediments tell it like it was

Smol

2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…(Callaghan et al 2004). Palaeoecological research, which uses the record of changes in fossil plant and animal assemblages together with sedi− ment characteristics, provides valuable data for reconstructing past local climate and other environmental variables (Birks and Birks 2006). Sediment records from the Arctic provide a unique data−set of biotic changes especially due to the fact that this area has been protected from human impact until recent times (Birks 2007).…”

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What do Holocene sediments in Petuniabukta, Spitsbergen reveal?

Bernardová¹,

Košnar²

2012

Polish Polar Research

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Studies of past vegetation from the inner fjords of the Svalbard archipelago have not previously been reported. This study assesses the potential of sediments retrieved from two sites in Petuniabukta, Billefjorden to track vegetation response to Quaternary climate change. The first sediment profile was retrieved from periodic lake on a 4 m a.s.l. marine terrace with a basal radiocarbon dated to 5 080 ± 30 BP, the second was retrieved from a de− pression in wet tundra on a 24 m a.s.l. marine terrace, which upper part was dated to 9 470 ± 30 BP. The study is primarily focused on macro− and micro−fossils. Pollen grains are pres− ent in very low concentrations. Macro−fossils were represented mostly by leafs and buds of Salix species and Dryas octopetala as well as the hybrid Salix herbacea x polaris. Fossil moss remains represent an important part of arctic ecosystems. Tardigrada remains were found in the sediments in high abundance whilst eggs and exuviae of at least six species were identified. The sediments are definitely suitable for the reconstruction of past condi− tions. However, it is necessary to take care not to focus at single type of analysis, as pollen analysis appeared uninformative and more information was obtained from plant macro− fossils (mosses, vascular plants). Little attention has been given to Tardigrada in the past, as they were overlooked and the preservation in sediments is usually very low.

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Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology

Cited by 304 publications

References 206 publications

Living on the good soil: relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Living on the good soil: relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Marine sediments tell it like it was

What do Holocene sediments in Petuniabukta, Spitsbergen reveal?

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