Colonisation of Greenland by plants and animals after the last ice age: A review

Polar Record

Volumn 35, Issue 195, 1999, Pages 323-336

  Bennike, Ole ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; FAUNA; FLORA;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033377950     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247400015679     Document Type: Review

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