Main Stages of Woody Vegetation Development
in the Yamal Peninsula in the Holocene

R. M. Hantemirov and S. G. Shiyatov

Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, Ekaterinburg,
620144 Russia

Received November 12, 1998

Abstract—Radiocarbon dating of 53 subfossil specimens of Siberian larch and Siberian spruce wood collected
in alluvial and peaty deposits of the southern Yamal Peninsula provided the basis for distinguishing three long
periods of the Holocene, which differed in the location of the polar boundary of the open woodland zone and
the amount of forests on the territory. The highest amount of forests and the northernmost position of their
boundary were characteristic of the early Holocene (10 500–7400 years ago); over the past 3700 years, the
amount of forests was minimal, and the open woodland boundary remained in the southernmost position.

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