Rapid vegetation response to Lateglacial and early Holocene climatic fluctuation in the South Carpathian Mountains (Romania)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-130

  Magyari, E K ^a   Jakab, G ^b   Balint M ^c   Kern, Z ^a   Buczko K ^d   Braun, M ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Lateglacial; Refugia; Retezat Mountains; Tree line; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

LATEGLACIAL; REFUGIA; RETEZAT MOUNTAINS; TREE LINE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; REFUGIUM; STEPPE; TREELINE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALTITUDE; MOUNTAINS; PLANTS; ROMANIA; SEDIMENTS;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS CEMBRA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84857109544     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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