Pollen and charcoal in lake sediments compared with historically documented forest fires in southern Switzerland since AD 1920

Holocene

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-42

  Tinner, Willy ^a   Conedera, Marco ^b   Ammann, Brigitta ^a   Gäggeler, Heinz W ^a   Gedye, Sharon ^c   Jones, Richard ^c   Sägesser, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charcoal analysis; Fire history; Forest fires; Lake sediments; Pollen analysis; Pollen slides; Switzerland; Thin sections; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FIRE; FOREST; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT; LAKE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0031909248     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968398667205430     Document Type: Article

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