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Reconstructed high-resolution forest dynamics and human impacts of the past 2300 years of the Parc national de Mont-Orford , southeastern Québec, Canada by Claire E O’Neill Sanger; Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques; Matthew C Peros; Kayden Avery Schwartz is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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We used a high-resolution lacustrine pollen record from Étang Fer-de-Lance (45°21′21.9′N, 72°13′35.3′W), southeastern Québec, Canada, together with microcharcoal, to infer forest dynamics and human impacts over the past 2300 years. The lake is located in the eastern sugar maple-basswood forest domain of the Northern Temperate Forest of eastern North America. We found that the pollen percentages and influxes of Fagus grandifolia (American beech) and Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) significantly declined over the past 700 years. Over the last millennium, the pollen percentages and influxes of the Picea species (P. glauca, P. mariana, P. rubens) (white, black, and red spruce), and Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) significantly increased. We showed that these shifts in forest composition are being driven by changes in regional climate. In addition to the pollen percentage changes, the Medieval Climate Anomaly (AD 800-1300) appeared as increased pollen influxes and the Dark Ages Cold Period (AD 400-700) and Little Ice Age (AD 1400-1800) appeared as decreased pollen influxes. The signal for human modification of the landscape first appeared at ~AD 1550-1650 as increases in Ambrosia

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Author

Claire E O’Neill Sanger; Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques; Matthew C Peros; Kayden Avery Schwartz

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)