Pollen productivity, dispersal, and correction factors for major tree taxa in the Swiss Alps based on pollen-trap results

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 200-210

  Sjögren, Per ^a   van der Knaap, W O ^b   Huusko, Antti ^c   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

absolute pollen productivity; pollen traps; pollen accumulation rates; relative pollen productivity; vegetation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DISPERSAL; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL METHOD; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

ALNUS; ALNUS VIRIDIS SINUATA; LARIX; PICEA; PINUS CEMBRA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 55549105047     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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