Last millennium palaeoenvironmental changes from a Baltic bog (Poland) inferred from stable isotopes, pollen, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 93-106

  Lamentowicz, M ^a   Cedro, A ^f   Galka M ^a   Goslar, T ^a   Miotk Szpiganowicz, G ^b   Mitchell, E A D ^c,d   Pawlyta, J ^e  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Last millennium; Multi proxy study; Ombrotrophic peatland; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes; Surface moisture; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOG; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOSS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BALTIC COAST [POLAND]; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM AUSTINII; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM; SPHAGNUM IMBRICATUM;

EID: 47249101464     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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