Pollen accumulation rates as a tool for detecting land-use changes in a sparsely settled boreal forest

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-217

  Kuoppamaa, Mari ^a   Goslar, Tomasz ^b,c   Hicks, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Pozna Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Poland)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Finnish Lapland; High resolution peat profile; Land use change; Pollen accumulation rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 63949084020     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0205-3     Document Type: Article

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