Deglacial vegetation succession and Holocene tree-limit dynamics in the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden: Stratigraphic data compared to megafossil evidence

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 129-151

  Bergman, Jonas ^a,c   Hammarlund, Dan ^a   Hannon, Gina ^b   Barnekow, Lena ^a   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b S Swedish Forest Research Centre   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

8200 cal year BP event; Deglacial plant succession; Forest history; Macroscopic plant remains; Palaeoclimate; Tree limit ecotone

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SUCCESSION; TREELINE; VEGETATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

ALNUS INCANA; BETULA NANA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULACEAE; DRYAS OCTOPETALA; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; GEUM; GEUM RIVALE; OXYRIA DIGYNA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POACEAE; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PALUSTRE; SALIX; SAXIFRAGA;

EID: 18044386380     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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