Essays about: "glacial survival"

Found 2 essays containing the words glacial survival.

1. 1. PLANT MIGRATION AT THE END OF THE WEICHSELIAN GLACIATION : Macrofossil evidence of early coniferous trees at two northern Swedish sites

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

   Author : Karan Zakrzewski-Sharma; [2019]
   Keywords : Scandinavia; Weichselian; plant migration; macrofossils; climate change;

   Abstract : Studies of vegetation history bring a new incentive to our understanding of plant survival and migration in arctic environments. For decades, environmental research was based on palynological data and these studies created a notion that tree species such as larch (Larix sibirica) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) did not grow in northern Scandinavia at the end of Weichselian glaciation. READ MORE

3. 2. Cryptic refugia vs. Tabula Rasa: Boreal trees in glacial Fennoscandia : Plant growth during the Weichselian glaciation and the early Holocene in northern Europe

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

   Author : Anne van Woerkom; [2016]
   Keywords : boreal trees; Fennoscandia; cryptic refugia; Weichselian; glacial survival;

   Abstract : Recent studies applying innovative technologies, such as genetic analysis and carbon dating, contradict the palynological based assumption that Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Norway spruce (Picea abies) vanished from Fennoscandia during the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 20.000 yrs BP) and re-colonized after the cold Younger Dryas (c. 12. READ MORE