The Mediterranean Basin and Southern Europe in a warmer world: What can we learn from the past?

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guiot, Joël ^a   Kaniewski, David ^b,c  

^a FR 3098 Aix Marseille University CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Global warming; Holocene; Mediterranean civilizations; Model inversion; Vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016557311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00028     Document Type: Article

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