Effects of climatic change and bog development on Holocene tufa formation in the Lorze Valley (central Switzerland)

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-336

  Wehrli, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Edward A D ^b,c,d   van der Knaap, W O ^a   Ammann, Brigitta ^a   Tinner, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Pollen; Raised bog development; Switzerland; Testate amoebae; Tufa formation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOG; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIRE; POLLEN; PROTOZOAN; RECHARGE; TUFA;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77951291685     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609351901     Document Type: Article

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