Holocene vegetation and climate changes in the central Mediterranean inferred from a high-resolution marine pollen record (Adriatic Sea)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2023-2042

  Combourieu Nebout, N ^a   Peyron, O ^b   Bout Roumazeilles, V ^c   Goring, S ^d   Dormoy, I ^e   Joannin, S ^e,f   Sadori, L ^g   Siani, G ^h   Magny, M ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c Univ Lille   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e University of Franche Comté   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONIZATION; FOREST; HOLOCENE; POLLEN; PREBOREAL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; VEGETATION; WINTER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ADRIATIC SEA; BALKAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 84879796745     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2023-2013     Document Type: Article

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