1200 years of decadal-scale variability of Mediterranean vegetation and climate at Pantelleria Island, Italy

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1477-1486

  Calò, Camilla ^a   Henne, Paul D ^a   Eugster, Patricia ^b   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline ^a   Gilli, Adrian ^c   Hamann, Yvonne ^c   La Mantia, Tommaso ^d   Pasta, Salvatore ^c   Vescovi, Elisa ^a   Tinner, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age' (LIA); 'Medieval Warm Period' (MWP); central Mediterranean; fire history; Pinus pinaster; Quercus ilex; Quercus pubescens; vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ISLAND; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ITALY; PANTELLERIA; SICILY; TRAPANI;

EID: 84883645648     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613493935     Document Type: Article

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