Vegetational response to climatic changes recorded in Swiss Late Glacial lake sediments

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 231-250

  Wick, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gerzensee oscillation; Palaeoclimate; Preboreal oscillation; Rates of change; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034660210     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00087-0     Document Type: Article

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