Wood anatomy of West European Betula: Quantitative descriptions and applications for routine identification in paleoecological studies

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 370-379

  Hellberg, Erik ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Betula nana; Betula pendula; Betula pubescens; Betula pubescens ssp; Principal components analysis; Tortuosa; Wood charcoal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANATOMY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

BETULA; BETULA NANA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS;

EID: 0346934912     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682786     Document Type: Article

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