Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics of south-eastern Estonia

Quaternary International

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 104-116

  Niinemets, Eve ^a,b   Saarse, Leili ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRONZE AGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; LAND USE CHANGE; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

HORDEUM; PICEA; QUERCUS; SECALE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM; ULMUS;

EID: 70349138472     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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