The 9000-year history of vegetation development and disturbance patterns of a swamp-forest in Dalarna, northern Sweden

Holocene

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-48

  Segerström, Ulf ^a   Hörnberg, Greger ^a   Bradshaw, Richard ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal; Charcoal; Conservation policy; Disturbance; Fire history; Flooding; Grazing; Human impact; Palaeoecology; Picea; Succession; Swamp forest; Sweden; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; CHARCOAL ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE VEGETATION; PICEA; SWAMP FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

SWEDEN, DALARNA;

PICEA SPP.;

EID: 0029667978     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369600600105     Document Type: Article

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