Supervision
Partners
- Université ParisSaclay
- Université Versaille Saint Quentin – Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
- Université Versailles Saint Quentin – Cultures Environnement Arctique Representation Climat
- Utrecht University Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development
- University of Bergen
- North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk
The principal object of the project is to examine climatically- and anthropogenically-driven changes in terrestrial ecosystems over the Holocene in Northwest Iceland. We assess the impacts of the proposed drivers for environmental change over a transect stretching through an environmental gradient from the oceanic environs of the Skagi peninsula, across the inner lowlands, up to the highland margin and highlands. The environmentally different locations will be examined palaeoecologically in order to assess their respective ecosystem resilience to climate change and land use. We employ a multi-proxy approach, combining bio- and lithostratigraphic methods to tease out signals for vegetation change and soil erosion. The new data allows for the examination of how climate and vegetation change affects the globally important carbon pool in lakes and wetlands. The new data will inform about how the terrestrial ecosystem has responded to climate change and land-use in the past, and as such provide important information about how ecosystems may react to future climatic or anthropogenic perturbations
Supervision
Supervision
Other participants
- Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate
- Edita Tverijonaite
- Rögnvaldur Ólafsson
- C.M. Hall
Supervision
Other participants
- Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (Davíð A Stefánsson)
- LBHI (Emmanuel Pagneux)