Mid-Holocene environmental change at Black Ridge Brook, Dartmoor, SW England: A new appraisal based on fungal spore analysis

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 189-201

  Blackford, J J ^a   Innes, J B ^b   Hatton, J J ^c   Caseldine, C J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

charcoal; Dartmoor; fire; fungal spores; Mesolithic; NPPs; pollen

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNGUS; HUNTER-GATHERER; MESOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; SPORE;

BLACK RIDGE BROOK; DARTMOOR; DEVON; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BETULA; CORYLUS; FUNGI;

EID: 33747170855     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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