Radiocarbon-dated peat and wood remains from the Finnish Subarctic: Evidence of treeline and landscape history

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 743-751

  Holtmeier, Friedrich Karl ^a,c   Broll, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Autumnal moth; Climate change; Finland; Late Holocene; Mountain birch; Reindeer; Subarctic; Treeline; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ECOTONE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TREELINE; VEGETATION; WOOD;

EURASIA; LAPLAND;

BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; LEPIDOPTERA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 33746896617     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl968rp     Document Type: Article

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