Century-scale shifts in early holocene atmospheric CO2 concentration

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5422, 1999, Pages 1971-1973

  Wagner, Friederike ^a   Bohncke, Sjoerd J P ^b   Dilcher, David L ^c   Kürschner, Wolfram M ^a   Van Geel, Bas ^d   Visscher, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OSCILLATION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

EID: 0033580974     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5422.1971     Document Type: Article

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