The age and post-glacial development of the modern European vegetation: a plant functional approach based on pollen data

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 303-317

  Davis, Basil A S ^a   Collins, Pamela M ^b   Kaplan, Jed O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b 43 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez Escalier 1 ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Arboreal pollen; Biome; Holocene; Plant functional type; Squared chord distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930384915     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: 16176278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0476-9     Document Type: Article

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