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Dan Hammarlund

Dan Hammarlund

Professor

Dan Hammarlund

Palaeolimnological and sedimentary responses to Holocene forest retreat in the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden

Författare

  • Dan Hammarlund
  • G Velle
  • BB Wolfe
  • TWD Edwards
  • Lena Barnekow
  • Jonas Bergman
  • S Holmgren
  • S Lamme
  • Ian Snowball
  • B Wohlfarth
  • G Possnert

Summary, in English

A suite of analyses was performed on sediments accumulated during the last 10 700 years in Lake Spaime, a small, hydrologically open water body in the modern alpine tundra zone of the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden. The study aimed to evaluate (1) the nature of climate changes that forced the late-Holocene lowering of altitudinal tree limit in the region, the timing of which is known from prior studies based on radiocarbon dating of subfossil wood, and (2) the impact of these vegetational changes on an aquatic ecosystem. Arboreal pollen and plant macrofossil data confirm the persistence of trees in the lake catchment at least from c. 9700 cal. BP until c. 3700 cal. BP. Although growing-season temperature is commonly believed to be the dominant factor driving boreal forest tree-limit variations in the region, a chironomid-based reconstruction of mean July air temperature suggests that local deforestation during the late Holocene was not accompanied by a significant cooling. The tree-limit retreat was more likely caused by increasing effective moisture and declining length of the growing season. The ecohydrological response of Lake Spaime to this combination of climate and vegetational changes included a decline in primary productivity, as indicated by an abrupt decrease in sediment organic matter content, while associated increases in organic delta(13)C, delta(15)N and C/N point to diminished fluxes and altered balance of catchment-derived nutrients following deforestation. The decline in aquatic productivity is also marked by a distinct change in the mineral magnetic properties, from a high magnetic concentration assemblage dominated by fine-grained magnetite of biogenic origin to one dominated by background levels of coarse-grained detrital magnetite.

Avdelning/ar

  • Kvartärgeologi

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

862-876

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Holocene

Volym

14

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • Sweden
  • environmental magnetism
  • chironomidae
  • stable isotope geochemistry
  • lacustrine nutrient cycling
  • lake sediments
  • Holocene palaeoecology
  • alpine tree-limit dynamics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0959-6836