This paper summarizes current knowledge about the postglacial history of the vegetation of
the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) and Greenland. Available pollen data were used to …

Aim We examined the phylogeography of the cold‐temperate macroalgal species Fucus
distichus L., a key foundation species in rocky intertidal shores and the only Fucus species …

Members of the seaweed family Fucaceae have been recurrent models in North Atlantic
phylogeographic research; numerous studies have been published since 2000, and this …

This study proposes a new hypothesis: Debris-covered glaciers served as Pleistocene
biological refugia. This is based on detailed studies of vascular plant growth on six debris …

Trajectories of plant primary succession are commonly inferred from temporal changes in
non-spatially explicit metrics that characterise the whole sampling area with a single statistic …

Crangonyx islandicus sp. nov.(Crustacea, Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) is described from
Iceland. This is the second species of freshwater, subterranean, gammaridean amphipods …

Abstract This paper discusses North Atlantic insect biota and their origins in relation to
climate change in the North Atlantic. The debate concerning biotic survival in refugia or …

The aim of this study was to find evidence of Holocene hybridisation between downy birch
(Betula pubescens) and dwarf birch (B. nana) in Iceland. We measured Betula pollen from …

The earliest record of Potamophylax cingulatus in Iceland is from east Iceland in 1959. In the
1970s, the distribution of the species in Iceland was restricted to the east and north‐east. In …

Iceland is an island in the northern North Atlantic halfway between Europe and
Greenland/North America and some of its northern parts touch the Arctic Circle. Its position …