The Early Holocene treeline in the southern French Alps: New evidence from travertine formations

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 411-419

  Ali, Adam A ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,b   Guendon, Jean Louis ^c   Quinif, Yves ^d   Roiron, Paul ^a   Terral, Jean Frédéric ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; French Alps; Palacoecology; Palaeobotany; Plant imprints; Travertine; Treeline; Tufa

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; HOLOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; TRAVERTINE; TREELINE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TUFA;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BETULA; PINUS UNCINATA; POPULUS TREMULA; SALIX; POPULUS;

EID: 0141856568     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.2003.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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