Climate, palaeohydrology and land use change in the Central Iberian Range over the last 1.6 kyr: The La Parra Lake record

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1177-1192

  Barreiro Lostres, Fernando ^a   Moreno, Ana ^a   Giralt, Santiago ^b   Caballero, Margarita ^c   Valero Garcés, Blas ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

diatoms; human impact; Iberian Peninsula; karstic lake; Late Holocene; palaeohydrology; sedimentary facies geochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908686131     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614540960     Document Type: Article

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