Impacts of changing climate and land use on vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem: Insights from paleoecology and dynamic modeling

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 819-833

  Henne, Paul D ^a,b   Elkin, Ché ^b   Colombaroli, Daniele ^a   Samartin, Stéphanie ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Heiri, Oliver ^a   Tinner, Willy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Chironomids; Fire ecology; Holocene; Italy; Landscape model; Mediterranean forest; Neolithic; Pollen; Quercus ilex

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROWSING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; LIGHT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIXED FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; CHIRONOMIDAE; ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 84876979574     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9782-8     Document Type: Article

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