Lateglacial environmental and climatic changes at the Maloja Pass, Central Swiss Alps, as recorded by chironomids and pollen

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1340-1353

  Ilyashuk, Boris ^a,b   Gobet, Erika ^c   Heiri, Oliver ^a   Lotter, André F ^a   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^c   van der Knaap, Willem O ^c   Ilyashuk, Elena ^b,d   Oberli, Florencia ^c   Ammann, Brigitta ^c  

^a Palaeoecology   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF NORTH INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE REGIONS; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHIRONOMIDS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; GREENLAND; HOLOCENE; LATEGLACIAL; POLLEN ASSEMBLAGE; SWISS ALPS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALLEROD; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INSECT; LATE GLACIAL; POLLEN; PREBOREAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ABIES LASIOCARPA; COOLING; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN; PLANTS; POLLEN; SEDIMENTS; SHRUBS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; MALOJA PASS; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 67349176348     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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