Late Glacial to Holocene environments in the present-day coldest region of the Northern Hemisphere inferred from a pollen record of Lake Billyakh, Verkhoyansk Mts, NE Siberia

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-84

  Muller S ^a   Tarasov, P E ^a   Andreev, A A ^b   Diekmann, B ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; STEPPE; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EURASIA; LAKE BILLYAKH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

ABIES; ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ALNUS; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; BETULA; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CYPERACEAE; LARIX; PICEA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POACEAE; SALIX; SELAGINELLA; SELAGINELLA RUPESTRIS;

EID: 62249186815     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-73-2009     Document Type: Article

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