2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6017, 2011, Pages 578-582

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Tegel, Willy ^c   Nicolussi, Kurt ^d   McCormick, Michael ^e   Frank, David ^a,b   Trouet, Valerie ^a,f   Kaplan, Jed O ^g   Herzig, Franz ^h   Heussner, Karl Uwe ⁱ   Wanner, Heinz ^b   Luterbacher, Jürg ^j   Esper, Jan ^k  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

^h Bavarian State Department for Cultural Heritage   (Germany)

ⁱ GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^j JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISCAL REFORM; HEALTH RISK; HISTORICAL RECORD; MEDIEVAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROMAN ERA; TREE RING;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; EPIDEMICS; EUROPE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; QUERCUS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 79551623531     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197175     Document Type: Article

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