Modern pollen studies from coppiced woodlands and their implications for the detection of woodland management in Holocene pollen records

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 187, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-28

  Waller, Martyn ^a   Grant, Michael J ^a,b   Bunting, M Jane ^c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coppicing; Holocene palaeoecology; Modern pollen vegetation relationships; Neolithic; Pollen analysis; Woodland management

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COPPICE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FLOWERING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HOLOCENE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLEN RAIN; REGROWTH; SHRUB; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

ALPS; EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; PREALPS; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; ANIMALIA; CORYLUS AVELLANA; TILIA; TILIA CORDATA;

EID: 84867013374     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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