The climate of Europe during the Holocene: A gridded pollen-based reconstruction and its multi-proxy evaluation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-127

  Mauri, A ^a   Davis, B A S ^a   Collins, P M ^a   Kaplan, J O ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Europe; Gridded reconstruction; Holocene; Multi proxy comparison; Pollen climate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922701658     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.013     Document Type: Article

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