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