Climate in northern Eurasia 6000 years ago reconstructed from pollen data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 635-645

  Tarasov, Pavel E ^a,b   Guiot, Joel ^b   Cheddadi, Rachid ^b   Andreev, Andrei A ^c   Bezusko, Ludmila G ^d   Blyakharchuk, Tatyana A ^e   Dorofeyuk, Nadezhda I ^f   Filimonova, Ludmila V ^g   Volkova, Valentina S ^h   Zernitskaya, Valentina P ⁱ  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d M G KHOLODNY INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Ukraine)

^e TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics Minsk   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate; Eurasia; Middle Holocene; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN;

EID: 0033618963     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00171-5     Document Type: Article

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