Climate changes and human activities recorded in the sediments of Lake Estanya (NE Spain) during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 423-452

  Morellón, Mario ^a   Valero Garcés, Blas ^a   González Sampériz, Penélope ^a   Vegas Vilarrúbia, Teresa ^b   Rubio, Esther ^b   Rieradevall, Maria ^b   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^c   Mata, Pilar ^d   Romero, Óscar ^e   Engstrom, Daniel R ^f   López Vicente, Manuel ^g   Navas, Ana ^g   Soto, Jesús ^h  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f ST CROIX WATERSHED RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g CSIC   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human impact; Iberian Peninsula; Lake Estanya; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Twentieth century; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANTHROPOLOGY; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LITTLE ICE AGE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARAGON; HUESCA [ARAGON]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAKE ESTANYA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 79957973695     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-009-9346-3     Document Type: Article

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