Climatic change in the Russian Altai, southern Siberia, based on palynological and geomorphological results, with implications for climatic teleconnections and human history since the middle Holocene

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 101-118

  Schlütz, Frank ^a   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Middle Atlantic; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Pollen clumps; Socio ecological changes; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

LARIX; LARIX SIBIRICA; PICEA; PICEA OBOVATA;

EID: 33845767327     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-006-0073-7     Document Type: Article

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