Vegetation response to early Pleistocene climatic cycles in the Lamone valley (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Fusco, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

climate; Italy; Lamone; Pleistocene; pollen; vegetation cycles

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; VEGETATION HISTORY;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAMONE VALLEY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CARYA; CARYA ILLINOINENSIS; EMILIA; JUGLANDACEAE; PICEA; QUERCUS; SCIADOPITYS; TAXODIUM; TSUGA;

EID: 34247625562     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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