Macrofossils as records of plant responses to rapid Late Glacial climatic changes at three sites in the Swiss Alps

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 251-259

  Tobolski, Kazimierz ^a   Ammann, Brigitta ^b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic response; Climatic change; Late Glacial; Plant macrofossils; Switzerland; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOSSIL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034660515     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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