Instability of climate and vegetation dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe during the final stage of the Last Interglacial (Eemian, Mikulino) and Early Glaciation

Quaternary International

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 137-144

  Boettger, Tatjana ^a   Novenko, Elena Yu ^b   Velichko, Andrej A ^b   Borisova, Olga K ^b   Kremenetski, Konstantin V ^b,c   Knetsch, Stefan ^a,d   Junge, Frank W ^d  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; INTERGLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70349145392     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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