Proxy climate and vegetation changes during the last five millennia in NW Iberia: Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph data from two ombrotrophic peat bogs in the North Western Iberian Peninsula

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 203-223

  Mighall, T M ^a   Martinez Cortizas A ^b   Biester, H ^c   Turner, S E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

non pollen palynomorphs; NW Iberia; ombrotrophic bog; pollen; proxy climate record

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALYNOMORPH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LUGO [GALICIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; XISTRAL MOUNTAINS;

COPROPHILOUS; CYPERACEAE; FUNGI;

EID: 33747182794     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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