A multi-proxy, high-resolution record of peatland development and its drivers during the last millennium from the subalpine Swiss Alps

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3467-3480

  van der Knaap, W O ^a   Lamentowicz, M ^b,c,d,e   van Leeuwen, J F N ^a   Hangartner, S ^a   Leuenberger, M ^a   Mauquoy, D ^f   Goslar, T ^b,g   Mitchell, E A D ^c,d,e   Lamentowicz, Ł ^b   Kamenik, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g Pozna Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate; High resolution; Human impact; Last millennium; Multi proxy; Palaeoecology; Peatland

Indexed keywords

ALPS; CLIMATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN IMPACT; LAST MILLENNIUM; MULTI-PROXY; PALAEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND;

CHARCOAL; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRELATION; MIRE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND; PH; QUATERNARY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHAGNUM;

EID: 82255178229     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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