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<strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Finland</strong>, <strong>Special</strong> <strong>Paper</strong> <strong>46</strong><br />
Raimo Sutinen, Ilkka Aro, Hannu Herva, Tapio Muurinen, Matti Piekkari and Mauri Timonen<br />
should have left macro-signatures in the peat layers<br />
<strong>of</strong> Pousujärvi and other investigated peat sites in the<br />
region (Eronen & Zetterberg 1996).<br />
With respect to the present spruce timberline in<br />
the transition between the ma<strong>fi</strong> c Tanaelv belt and<br />
felsic Lapland granulite belt in Finnish Lapland<br />
(Sutinen et al. 2005), we argue that in contrast to<br />
Siberian cases (MacDonald et al. 2000), spruce<br />
has not been a ubiquitous member <strong>of</strong> the Holocene<br />
tree succession sequence in northern Fennoscandia.<br />
We thank Finnish Forest and Park Service for allowing<br />
us to make the research at the Pousujärvi<br />
and Kompsiotievanlammit sites. Osmo Äikää is<br />
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The Holocene vegetation history <strong>of</strong> the Khibiny Mountains:<br />
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
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