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Climate change and the accompanying increase in global surface temperatures pose a major threat to freshwater ecosystems, especially at high latitudes where warming is predicted to be particularly rapid. To date many aspects of how rising temperatures can impact fresh waters rem…

Grazing by domestic livestock is one of the primary ways by which humans have modified landscapes. At low stocking rates livestock grazing can modify vegetation community composition, but at high stocking rates grazing can also reduce vegetation productivity and initiate soil er…

Despite being a country synonymous with fishing and having very strong maritime traditions, the clear origins and development of specialist fishing communities prior to the mechanisation era in Iceland, particularly the Vestfirðir region, remain unclear. Further to this, the det…

Askja is a caldera volcano located in central Iceland that was glaciated approximately 70,000 to 10,500 years ago. Askja’s basaltic lavas have been classified into one preglacial, six glacial, one Early Holocene and thirteen historical eruptive units. The purpose of this study w…

This work documents processes of rhyolitic and mixed rhyolitic-basaltic magmatism and volcanism at Krafla central volcano, northeast Iceland, from two perspectives: 1) field studies of the mixed basalt-rhyolite Halarauður eruption associated with major caldera collapse at ca. 11…

The work addresses the manner in which belief develops from a Norse Pagan belief structure to a Christian one throughout conversion and Christianization in Iceland. Here the term "belief" suggests something different from the more commonly studied socio-political aspects of conv…