Post-glacial patterns in vegetation dynamics in Romania: Homogenization or differentiation?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2197-2208

  Feurdean, Angelica ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a,b   Parr, Catherine L ^a   Tantau, Ioan ^c   Farcas, Sorina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis similarity; Eastern Europe; Holocene; Homogenization differentiation; Human disturbance; Pollen; Romania; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DIFFERENTIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HOMOGENEITY; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; POSTGLACIAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EASTERN EUROPE; ROMANIA;

EID: 77958187346     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02370.x     Document Type: Article

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