The last 7 millennia of vegetation and climate changes at Lago di Pergusa (central Sicily, Italy)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1969-1984

  Sadori, L ^a   Ortu, E ^b   Peyron, O ^b,c   Zanchetta, G ^d   Vanniere B ^b   Desmet, M ^e   Magny, M ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e Universit e François Rabelais de Tours   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COOLING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ENNA; ITALY; PERGUSA LAKE; SICILY;

EID: 84879795285     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1969-2013     Document Type: Article

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