Plague and landscape resilience in premodern Iceland

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3664-3669

  Streeter, Richard ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^a   Vésteinsson, Orri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Human impact; Soil erosion; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; ICELAND; LANDSCAPE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ASH;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMICS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; ICELAND; LIVESTOCK; PLAGUE; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857969898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113937109     Document Type: Article

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