The vegetation history of snowdonia since the late glacial period

Field Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 539-552

  Rhind, Peter ^a   Jones, Barbara ^a  

^a Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LATE GLACIAL; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SNOWDONIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARTEMISIA; BETULA; BETULA NANA; CISTACEAE; CONVOLVULUS; FALLOPIA; FALLOPIA CONVOLVULUS; HELIANTHEMUM; KALMIA; KALMIA PROCUMBENS; KOENIGIA ISLANDICA; MUSA X PARADISIACA; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MEDIA; POLEMONIUM; POLEMONIUM CAERULEUM; POLYGONUM CONVOLVULUS; PORTULACACEAE; SALIX; SALIX HERBACEA; SAXIFRAGA; SAXIFRAGA GRANULATA; SAXIFRAGA NIVALIS; URTICA;

EID: 1542288301     PISSN: 0428304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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