Climate impacts on human settlement and agricultural activities in northern Norway revealed through sediment biogeochemistry

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

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20332-20337

  D'Anjou, Robert M ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^a   Balascio, Nicholas L ^a   Finkelstein, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Geoarchaeology; Paleoclimate; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

5BETA EPISTIGMASTANOL; 5BETA STIGMASTANOL; ALKANE; COPROSTEROL; EPICOPROSTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST; HOLOCENE; LAKE SEDIMENT; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NORWAY; STEROLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870861549     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212730109     Document Type: Article

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