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Holocene vegetation and biomass changes on the Tibetan Plateau – a model-pollen data comparison
A. Dallmeyer
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, KlimaCampus Hamburg, Germany
M. Claussen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, KlimaCampus Hamburg, Germany
Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, KlimaCampus Hamburg, Germany
U. Herzschuh
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
N. Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, KlimaCampus Hamburg, Germany
International Max-Planck-Research School, Hamburg, Germany
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Subject: Vegetation Dynamics | Archive: Terrestrial Archives | Timescale: Holocene
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Vegetation history and paleoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene
Holocene climate aridification trend and human impact interrupted by millennial- and centennial-scale climate fluctuations from a new sedimentary record from Padul (Sierra Nevada, southern Iberian Peninsula)
Dendrochronologically dated pine stumps document phase-wise bog expansion at a northwest German site between ca. 6700 and ca. 3400 BC
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Holocene Asian monsoon evolution revealed by a pollen record from an alpine lake on the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China
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Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the Holocene
Late Holocene vegetation changes in relation with climate fluctuations and human activity in Languedoc (southern France)
Effects of past climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo savanna of the Huanchaca Mesetta, NE Bolivia
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The last 7 millennia of vegetation and climate changes at Lago di Pergusa (central Sicily, Italy)
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