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Project Details: Palaeoanthropocene in Iceland


Project Description

Title: Palaeoanthropocene in Iceland
Description This project used published and new records of vegetation change and soil erosion from all of Iceland to look at the timing, extent and rate of change in natural systems at Landnám. This dataset was used to investigate the what extent it was possible to distinguish a distinct 'anthropocene' in Iceland, based on these records alone.
Keywords:Comparative Island Ecodynamics
anthropocene
pollen
tephra
soil erosion
Landnám
Sponsors/Funders NSF
Country Iceland
Project Start Year 2014
Project End Year 2015

Project Contact

Contact: Richard Streeter
Address Institute of Geography and Sustainable Development Irvine Building St Andrews
Postcode KY16 9AL
Email rts3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Project Content

The Onset of the palaeoanthropocene in Iceland: Changes in complex natural systems
Paper published in The Holocene in 2015


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