Exploring Holocene continentality changes in Fennoscandia using present and past tree distributions

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1296-1308

  Giesecke, T ^a,b   Bjune, A E ^c,d   Chiverrell, R C ^a   Seppa H ^e   Ojala, A E K ^f   Birks, H J B ^c,d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

HOLOCENE; OCEANIC CLIMATE; SURFACE-SEDIMENT SAMPLES; TREE DISTRIBUTIONS;

GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE; VEGETATION COVER;

CLIMATES; GEOLOGY; PLANTS; SCANDINAVIA; SEDIMENTS; TREES;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA;

CORYLUS; CORYLUS AVELLANA; MALVACEAE; PICEA ABIES; QUERCUS ROBUR; TILIA CORDATA; ULMUS; ULMUS GLABRA;

EID: 46549083438     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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