Land biotas of the last interglacial/glacial cycle on Jameson Land, East Greenland

Ole Bennike, Jens Böcher

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    Macrofossil plant and insect remains from nearshore marine sediments in Jameson Land, central East Greenland show that the land biotas of the last interglacial stage, the Langelandselv stage, were more diverse than those of the Holocene. Rich dwarf shrub heaths with a diverse assemblage of ericaceous plants occupied low land areas with copses of Betula pubescens on sheltered sites. Many southern extra‐limital species were present, and the mean summer temperature was c. 5°C higher than today. The subarctic bioclimatic zone was displaced from southernmost Greenland/Iceland to central East Greenland. The diverse beetle fauna was of palaearctic affinity and strikingly different from the Plio‐Pleistocene and the Holocene Greenlandic beetle faunas. A few fossil assemblages from the Hugin Sø Interstade, which is correlated with oxygen isotope stage 5c (early last glacial stage), point to poor, perhaps entirely herbaceous vegetation with a mean summer temperature that was perhaps 3 4°C lower than today.

    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Sider (fra-til)479-487
    Antal sider9
    TidsskriftBoreas
    Vol/bind23
    Udgave nummer4
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - dec. 1994

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    • Programområde 5: Natur og klima

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