Biotic responses to rapid climatic changes: Introduction to a multidisciplinary study of the Younger Dryas and minor oscillations on an altitudinal transect in the Swiss Alps

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 191-201

  Ammann, Brigitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic responses; Climatic change; Early Holocene; Late Glacial; Project design; Time lags

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; PALEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034659951     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00084-5     Document Type: Article

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