Vegetation responses to rapid warming and to minor climatic fluctuations during the late-glacial interstadial (GI-1) at gerzensee (switzerland)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 391, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-59

  Ammann, Brigitta ^a   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^a   van der Knaap, Willem O ^a   Lischke, Heike ^b   Heiri, Oliver ^a   Tinner, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Aller d; B lling; Biotic responses to climatic change; Late Glacial; Oldest Dryas; Plant population dynamics; Pollen; Primary succession; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; IMMIGRATION; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY; WARMING; WOODLAND;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; GERZENSEE; SWITZERLAND;

BETULA; HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES; JUNIPERUS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA; SALIX;

EID: 84890220846     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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