Climatic and environmental changes in north-western Russia between 15,000 and 8000 cal yr BP: a review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 13-14, 2007, Pages 1871-1883

  Wohlfarth, Barbara ^a   Lacourse, Terri ^a   Bennike, Ole ^b   Subetto, Dmitry ^c,d   Tarasov, Pavel ^e,f   Demidov, Igor ^g   Filimonova, Ludmila ^h   Sapelko, Tatyana ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^d YAROSLAV THE WISE NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAKES; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION;

LATEGLACIAL VEGETATION; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; RAPID WARMING; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PERMAFROST; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

EURASIA; KARELIA [(ADS) RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; LAKE NERO; LAKE TEREBENSKOYE; NOVGOROD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VALDAI HILLS; YAROSLAVL;

BETULA NANA; BETULA PUBESCENS; CHIRONOMIDAE; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SALIX;

EID: 34547437726     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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