Vegetation sensitivity to climate changes and human impact in the Harghita Mountains (Eastern Romanian Carpathians) over the past 15 000 years

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 141-152

  Tanţǎu, Ioan ^a   Feurdean, Angelica ^b,c   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^d   Reille, Maurice ^d   Fǎrcaş, Sorina ^e  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Romania)

Author keywords

Forest dynamics; Holocene; Human impact; Lateglacial; PCA; Pollen; Romania

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST CLEARANCE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GRAZING; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; GREENLAND; ROMANIA;

EID: 84896535824     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2688     Document Type: Article

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