Lateglacial vegetation development in Denmark - New evidence based on macrofossils and pollen from Slotseng, a small-scale site in southern Jutland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2534-2550

  Mortensen, Morten Fischer ^a,b   Birks, Hilary H ^c   Christensen, Charlie ^a   Holm, Jørgen ^d   Noe Nygaard, Nanna ^e   Odgaard, Bent Vad ^b   Olsen, Jesper ^b,f   Rasmussen, Kaare Lund ^g  

^a National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Museum Sønderjylland Arkæologi Haderslev   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Lateglacial; Macrofossil analysis; Pollen analysis; Vegetation development

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE COOLING; CLIMATE WARMING; DEGLACIATIONS; DENMARK; HOLOCENES; INFILLING; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LATEGLACIAL; MACROFOSSIL ANALYSIS; MACROFOSSILS; PIONEER PLANT; POLLEN ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION COVER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SOILS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEGLACIATION; DOMINANCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; INFILL; LATE GLACIAL; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PIONEER SPECIES; SOIL PROFILE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

DENMARK; JUTLAND;

BETULA; BETULA NANA; DRYAS OCTOPETALA; EMPETRUM; HELIANTHEMUM OELANDICUM; JUNIPERUS; SALIX;

EID: 80051876240     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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