'Islands' in Holocene forests: Implications for forest openness, landscape clearance and 'culture-steppe' species

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-208

  Whitehouse, Nicki J ^a   Smith, David N ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early holocene; Ecosystem dynamics; Forest openness; Fossil beetles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745816237     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.199     Document Type: Article

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