Vegetation patterns in the Southern Apennines (Italy) during MIS 13: Deciphering pollen variability along a NW-SE transect

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 218, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-183

  Russo Ermolli, Elda ^a,c   Di Donato, Valentino ^a   Martín Fernández, Josep A ^b   Orain, Ronan ^c   Lebreton, Vincent ^c   Piovesan, Gianluca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abies; Compositional Data Analysis; Fagus; Middle Pleistocene; Relative variation biplot; Vegetation dynamic

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FLOOR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; TRANSECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

APENNINES; ITALY;

ABIES; FAGUS;

EID: 84988239935     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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