Holocene tree-limit and distribution of Abies alba in the inner French Alps: Anthropogenic or climatic changes?

Boreas

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 468-476

  Carcaillet, Christopher ^a   Müller, Serge ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BURNING; CLIMATE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

EID: 30844439453     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009480500231377     Document Type: Article

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