Fig. 2

DCA plot. Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) based on the pollen composition through a north–south transect on the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Axis 1 (eigenvalue 0.7881) represents the spatial grouping of the sites and Axis2 (eigenvalue 0.5084) represents the spatial location of the pollen taxa identified in the topsoil samples. The data represented in the classification present an accumulated variance of 64.50 %