Holocene environmental change: Contributions from the peatland archive

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Chambers, Frank M ^a   Charman, Dan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Climatic change; Environmental change; Environmental management; Holocene; Mires; Peatland archives; Proxy climate records

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 1642506284     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl684ed     Document Type: Review

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