Quantification of biotic responses to rapid climatic changes around the Younger Dryas - A synthesis

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 313-347

  Ammann, Brigitta ^a   Birks, H J B ^b,c   Brooks, Stephen J ^d   Eicher, Ulrich ^e   Von Grafenstein, Ulrich ^f   Hofmann, Wolfgang ^g   Lemdahl, Geoffrey ^h   Schwander, Jakob ^e   Tobolski, Kazimierz ⁱ   Wick, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Nat Hist Mus Cromwell Rd S   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biotic response; Late Glacial; Quantification; Rapid climatic change; Time lags

Indexed keywords

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

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034659969     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00092-4     Document Type: Article

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