Lateglacial climate development in NW Romania - Comparative results from three quantitative pollen-based methods

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 121-133

  Feurdean, Angelica ^a   Klotz, Stefan ^b   Brewer, Simon ^c   Mosbrugger, Volker ^d   Tǎmaş, Tudor ^e   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate; Lateglacial; Modern analogue vegetation techniques; Pollen; Romania; WA PLS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LATE GLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; VEGETATION TYPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47349089120     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.024     Document Type: Article

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