Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate variability in NW Romania

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 494-504

  Feurdean, Angelica ^a   Klotz, Stefan ^b   Mosbrugger, Volker ^c   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Modern analogues; NW Romania; Pollen; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 41149155221     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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