Vegetation development at a mountain settlement site in the Swedish Scandes during the late Holocene: Palaeoecological evidence of human-induced deforestation

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 297-314

  Karlsson, Hanna ^a   Shevtsova, Anna ^b   Hörnberg, Greger ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Betula; Human impact; Pollen size statistics; Reference area approach; St llo settlement; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

BETULA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 67649687853     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0207-1     Document Type: Article

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