Calibrated pollen accumulation rates as a basis for quantitative tree biomass reconstructions

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-220

  Seppä, Heikki ^a   Alenius, Teija ^a   Muukkonen, Petteri ^b   Giesecke, Thomas ^c   Miller, Paul A ^d   Ojala, Antti E K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biomass; Boreal forest; Climate; Competitive interactions; Disturbances; Holocene; Pollen accumulation rate; Population

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; HOLOCENE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POLLEN; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA; PICEA;

EID: 67449121887     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608100565     Document Type: Article

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