Continental European Eemian and early Würmian climate evolution: Comparing signals using different quantitative reconstruction approaches based on pollen

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 277-294

  Klotz, Stefan ^a   Guiot, Joel ^b   Mosbrugger, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoenvironment; Pleistocene; Pollen; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; EEMIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ABIES; CARPINUS; CORYLUS; PICEA ABIES; PINUS MUGO; QUERCETUM;

EID: 0242668779     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00222-9     Document Type: Article

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