Post-disturbance vegetation dynamics during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene: An example from NW Iberia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 92-93, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-70

  López Merino, Lourdes ^a   Silva Sánchez, Noemí ^b   Kaal, Joeri ^c   López Sáez, José Antonio ^d   Martínez Cortizas, Antonio ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^d Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

Author keywords

Holocene; NW Iberia; Palynology; Principal component analysis; Transposed matrix; Vegetation composition; Vegetation response

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENES; NW IBERIA; PALYNOLOGY; TRANSPOSED MATRIX; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALYNOMORPH; PLEISTOCENE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

BETULA;

EID: 84861587746     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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