Regional vegetation-cover changes on the Swiss Plateau during the past two millennia: A pollen-based reconstruction using the REVEALS model

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 472-483

  Soepboer, Welmoed ^a   Sugita, Shinya ^b   Lotter, André F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LARGE LAKES; MIDDLE AGES; MODEL RESULTS; MODERN TIME; POLLEN DATA; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION COVER;

CLIMATE MODELS; LANDFORMS;

VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LAND COVER; MIDDLE AGES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; ROMAN ERA; VEGETATION COVER;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

CEREALIA;

EID: 74749099349     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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