Researchers: Claire O'Neill Sanger and Jeannine-Marie St.-Jacques
Highlights:
- As pollen is dispersed annually, it can be used as a natural climate proxy.
- This research uses fossilized pollen from lake-bed sediment to
- reconstruct decadal to centennial scale forest-vegetation dynamics and climate variability over the last thousand years and
- investigate the effects of European colonization as well as anthropogenic climate change on sugar-maple hardwood forest ecosystems in southeastern Québec.