Quantitative climate reconstruction from late-glacial and early Holocene plant macrofossils in western Norway using the probability density function approach

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-39

  Aarnes, Ingelinn ^a,b   Kühl, Norbert ^c   Birks, Hilary H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circumpolar; Kr kenes late glacial; Macrofossils; Pdf method; Quantitative climate reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DEGLACIATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION;

FENNOSCANDIA; KRAKENES; NORWAY; SOGN OG FJORDANE;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84855815264     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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