Assessing Holocene vegetation and fire history by a multiproxy approach: The case of Stodthagen Forest (northern Germany)

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 337-346

  Robin, Vincent ^a   Rickert, Björn Henning ^a   Nadeau, Marie Josée ^a   Nelle, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Europe; charcoal analysis; fire history; forest continuity; Holocene; multiproxy approach; pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CANOPY; CHARCOAL; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIRE HISTORY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IRON AGE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL PROFILE; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

GERMANY;

EID: 84857306103     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611423687     Document Type: Article

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