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dc.contributor.authorHiles, William
dc.contributor.authorLawson, Ian Thomas
dc.contributor.authorRoucoux, Katy
dc.contributor.authorStreeter, Richard Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-06T15:30:26Z
dc.date.available2021-05-06T15:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-06
dc.identifier273370373
dc.identifier630e95ee-c5a2-4ba3-9135-587d611e5a65
dc.identifier85105196530
dc.identifier000647474000001
dc.identifier.citationHiles , W , Lawson , I T , Roucoux , K & Streeter , R T 2021 , ' Late survival of woodland contrasts with rapid limnological changes following settlement at Kalmanstjörn, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland ' , Boreas , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12529en
dc.identifier.issn0300-9483
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2261-4540/work/93514726
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3547-2425/work/93514744
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-6757-7267/work/93514746
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23122
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by the NSF‐IPY (International Polar Year; ref 0732327), a Ph.D. studentship from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, and the Quaternary Research Association.en
dc.description.abstractThe settlement of Iceland is known to have had profound impacts on vegetation and landscape stability, but there remain uncertainties around the spatial variability and timing of environmental change, and the impacts of settlement on aquatic ecosystems. Here a new multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction spanning the last 3000 years is presented from Kalmanstjörn, a small lake in Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland. Sedimentology, pollen and non‐pollen palynomorphs, and geochemical proxies, dated using tephrochronology, are used to reconstruct terrestrial vegetation, landscape stability and aquatic ecosystems. The data reveal complex environmental dynamics after settlement. At this site, substantial tree populations persisted until the late 15th century, in strong contrast to the rapid deforestation shown by almost all other records from Iceland. The eventual loss of woodland may have been caused by changes in direct human activity and the location of extensive grazing, in combination with Little Ice Age climatic cooling. The loss of woodland was accompanied by increased soil erosion. Conversely, the lake ecosystem showed an immediate response to settlement, becoming more productive for several centuries, perhaps in response to increased availability of nutrients from grazing herbivores. The late persistence of woodland in the Kalmanstjörn record adds to our understanding of the spatial variations in ecosystem responses to settlement in Iceland, while the evidence for decoupling of the aquatic and terrestrial systems suggests that palaeolimnological reconstructions focusing on aquatic ecosystem responses may be important new sources of information on the wider ecological consequences of human settlement.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBoreasen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectGF Human ecology. Anthropogeographyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 15 - Life on Landen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccGFen
dc.titleLate survival of woodland contrasts with rapid limnological changes following settlement at Kalmanstjörn, Mývatnssveit, northeast Icelanden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/bor.12529
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bor.12529en


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