Vegetational response to tephra deposition and land-use change in Iceland: A modern analogue and multiple working hypothesis approach to tephropalynology

Polar Record

Volumn 40, Issue 213, 2004, Pages 113-120

  Edwards, Kevin J ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^b   Blackford, Jeff J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; LAND USE CHANGE; PALYNOLOGY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

FRAXINUS;

EID: 2542417879     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0032247403003000     Document Type: Article

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