Charcoal analysis, a method to study vegetation and climate of the Holocene: The case of Lago di Pergusa (Sicily, Italy)

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-180

  Sadori, Laura ^a   Giardini, Marco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate; Fires; Holocene; Human impact; Palaeoecology; Palynology; Sicily; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE EFFECT; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PREHISTORIC; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34147181093     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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