A paleoecological perspective on 1450 years of human impacts from a lake in southern Greenland

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1025-1034

  Perren, Bianca B ^a   Massa, Charly ^a   Bichet, Vincent ^a   Gauthier, Émilie ^a   Mathieu, Olivier ^b   Petit, Christophe ^c   Richard, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

15N; agriculture; climate change; diatoms; Greenland; Norse

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHEEP; WARMING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84865191485     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612437865     Document Type: Article

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