Palynology in a polar desert, eastern North Greenland

Svend Visby Funder; Niels Abrahamsen

Palynology in a polar desert, eastern North Greenland

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Abstract

history back to c. 7,000 years calBP (6,000 years convBP) in this·extreme environment, which presents the coldest thermal regime where vascular plants can grow. The diagram shows that polar desert developed from sparse high arctic tundra at c. 4,300 years calBP (3,900 years convBP), owing to reduced summer heat. Also adjacent parts of high arctic Greenland, Canada and Svalbard suffered environmental decline, and polar deserts- presently restricted to a narrow fringe of land at the shores of the Arctic Ocean-were even
more restricted before this time. Like other arctic vegetation types, polar desert is highly sensitive to summer temperatures, and its southern limit coincides with the isotherm for mean July temperatures of 3.5'C, A comparison with the Northwest European ice-age pollen record shows no evidence of summers as cold as those now prevailing in the extreme north, and the results support the contention that the present Arctic and the ice-age mid-latitude environments are not identical.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Boreas
Vol/bind	17
Sider (fra-til)	195-207
ISSN	0300-9483
Status	Udgivet - 1988

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