Early to mid-Holocene climate change at Lago dell'Accesa (central Italy): Climate signal or anthropogenic bias?

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1239-1247

  Finsinger, Walter ^a,b,c,i   Colombaroli, Daniele ^a,d   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^e   Valsecchi, Verushka ^a,b,c   Vannière, Boris ^f   Vescovi, Elisa ^a   Chapron, Emmanuel ^g   Lotter, André F ^b   Magny, Michel ^f   Tinner, Willy ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f University of Franche Comté   (France)

^g GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

Author keywords

Holocene; Human impact; Lake level changes; Mediterranean; Pollen; Precipitation; Temperature; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ITALY;

ILEX; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 78649554245     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1402     Document Type: Article

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