Human impact on vegetation at the Alpine tree-line ecotone during the last millennium: Lessons from high temporal and palynological resolution

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-60

  van der Knaap, W O ^a   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^a   Goslar, Tomasz ^b,c   Krisai, Robert ^d   Tinner, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Pozna Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alps; High resolution; Human impact; Last millennium; Methods; Palynology

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255179468     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-011-0315-1     Document Type: Article

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