Vegetation of the Lago de Sanabria area (NW Iberia) since the end of the Pleistocene: A palaeoecological reconstruction on the basis of two new pollen sequences

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Munoz Sobrino C ^a,b   Ramil Rego, P ^a   Gomez Orellana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Northwest Iberia; Sanabria marsh; Upper pleistocene; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; BETULA; CISTACEAE; ERICACEAE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POACEAE; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 4544360790     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-003-0028-1     Document Type: Article

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