Holocene solifluction, climate variation and fire in a subarctic landscape at Pippokangas, Finnish Lapland, based on radiocarbon-dated buried charcoal

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 533-548

  Matthews, John A ^a   Seppälä, Matti ^b   Dresser, P Quentin ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Climate; Effective moisture; Finnish Lapland; Forest fire; Geoecological interaction; Holocene; Millennial scale variability; Radiocarbon dating; Solifluction history

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOLIFLUCTION; SUBARCTIC REGION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; LAPPI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 25444486978     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.932     Document Type: Article

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