Late Holocene Pollen Stratigraphy in Four Northeastern United States Lakes
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AbstractFour pollen diagrams from
Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania provide
fine resolution (40 or 80 years) records
of vegetation change in northeastern United
States during the past 2000 years. A
long term increase in pollen accumulation
rates (PAR) of Picea occurred at the three
sites in Maine and New York. Around 1100
years ago, Tsuga and Fagus decreased and
Quercus and Castanea increased at Ely
Lake in northeastern Pennsylvania. Around
500 years ago, Tsuga and Fagus greatly
decreased in Maine and northern New
York, while in northeastern Pennsylvania
there was an increase in Tsuga and Fagus
and a decrease in Quercus and Castanea
pollen. Non-arboreal PAR were negligible
prior to the European settlement of the
area, after which there was an abrupt increase
in non-arboreal pollen types. AccessDownload (4.94 Mb) |