2023-10-27
A Holocene history of climate, fire, landscape evolution, and human activity in Northeast Iceland
2023-10-27 • Nicolò Ardenghi, David J. Harning, Jonathan H. Raberg, Brooke Holman, T. Thórdarson, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Gifford H. Miller, Julio Sepúlveda
Abstract. Paleoclimate reconstructions across Iceland provide a template for past changes in climate across the northern North Atlantic, a crucial region due to its position relative to the global northward heat transport system and its vulnerability to climate change. The roles of orbitally driven summer cooling, volcanism, and human impact as triggers of local environmental changes in the Holocene of Iceland, remain debated. While there are indications that human impact may have reduced environmental resilience …