Vegetation response to the climatic and human impact changes during the late Glacial and holocene: Case study of the marginal area of Baltija Upland, ne Lithuania

Baltica

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-33

  Stancikaite, Migle ^a   Kisieliene, Dalia ^a   Strimaitiene, Andra ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN INSTITUTE OF HISTORY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Farming; Holocene; Late Glacial; NE Lithuania; Palaeobotany; Settlement history; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747378553     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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