Vegetation Change Over Time

Due to climate change and the impact of people, the plants that have lived in Tentsmuir have changed considerably over the last 9000 years and are still changing today. Understanding the history is important to learn how this landscape has evolved and adapted over time and how it should be man

What did it look like?

This is what Tentsmuir looks like today but it would have looked very different and different points in the past. Click and drag to discover more.

How do we know?

Pollen cores are a good and reliable way of investigating and reconstructing past environments. Cores can be radiocarbon dated so that each species of flora identified in the peat can be related back to a specific time. From these we can get an idea of what Tentsmuir looked like up to 8600 years! Check out the core to see what species have been growing in Tentsmuir over the years.