Estimating the amount of compositional change in late-Quaternary pollen-stratigraphical data

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 197-202

  Birks, H J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Compositional change; Detrended canonical correspondence analysis; Pollen stratigraphies; Sequence comparisons; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845749519     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-006-0079-1     Document Type: Article

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