Climatic and human impacts on mountain vegetation at Lauenensee (Bernese Alps, Switzerland) during the last 14,000 years

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1415-1427

  Rey, Fabian ^a   Schwörer, Christoph ^a   Gobet, Erika ^a   Colombaroli, Daniele ^a   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline FN ^a   Schleiss, Silke ^a   Tinner, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bernese Alps; cross correlation; human impact; Picea abies expansion; treeline; vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; FIRE HISTORY; FOSSIL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MONTANE FOREST; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALPS; BERNESE ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84883648489     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613489585     Document Type: Article

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