Woody vegetation, fuel and fire track the melting of the Scandinavian ice-sheet before 9500calyrBP

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 540-548

  Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,b   Hörnberg, Greger ^c   Zackrisson, Olle ^d  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c The Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Climate; Deglaciation; Disturbance; Nutrient build up; Pollen; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BROADLEAVED TREES; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATIONS; DISTURBANCE; FAR NORTH; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FIRE EVENT; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENES; NEW STUDY; ORGANIC SEDIMENTS; POLLEN; REGIONAL TRENDS; REGIONAL WARMING; SCANDINAVIA; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; WOODY PLANTS; WOODY VEGETATION;

CHARCOAL; FIRES; ICE; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

ABUNDANCE; CHARCOAL; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; GEOACCUMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWEDEN;

ALNUS; BETULA; CAREX; FILICOPHYTA; HIPPOPHAE; LARIX; LYCOPODIUM; MALUS; PICEA; POACEAE; SALIX;

EID: 84867995428     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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