Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Frenzel, Burkhard.
2. Birks, Hilary H.
3. Alm, Torbjørn.
4. Vorren, Karl-Dag.

Description

1. x, 303 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Paläoklimaforschung = Palaeoclimate research, 0930-4673 ; v. 20
2. ESF project, "European palaeoclimate and man" ; special issue 13

Uniform title

1. ESF project, "European palaeoclimate and man" ; special issue 13.
2. Paläoklimaforschung ; Bd. 20.

Subject

1. From 10 thousand years ago
2. Dendroclimatology > Scandinavia > Congresses
3. Paleoclimatology > Holocene > Congresses
4. Paleoclimatology > Scandinavia > Congresses
5. Timberline > Scandinavia > Congresses

Contents

1. Holocene treelines, dendrochronology and palaeoclimate / Hilary H. Birks, Karl-Dag Vorren & H. John B. Birks -- The present and the Holocene subalpine birch belt in Norway / Børre Aas & Thorbjøorn Faarlund -- Differences in the vertical distribution pattern of Betula pubescens in Norway and its ecological significance / Arvid Odland -- The temperature climate at the altitudinal vegetation limits in Skibotn, northern Norway / Reinhard Mook & Karl-Dag Vorren -- Structural population dynamics of pine, Pinus sylvestris L., during the past 500 years close to the tree-limit in northern Sweden / Leif Kullman -- Summer temperatures reconstructed from tree-rings of pine in northern Lapland / Markus Lindholm ... [et al.] -- A dendrochronological study on the effect of climate, site, and insect outbreaks on the growth of Betula pubescens coll. in northern Norway / Andreas J. Kirchhefer -- The narrow ring of 1784 in tree-ring series of Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris L., in southwest Norway : a possible result of volcanic eruptions in Iceland / Maarit Kalela-Brundin.
2. Short dendroseries from northern Norway reflect oceanic and subcontinental climates / Terje Thun & Karl-Dag Vorren -- Expanding megafossil-data on Holocene changes at the polar/alpine pine limit in northern Fennoscandia / Matti Eronen & Pentti Zetterberg -- The mid-Holocene climatic change around 3800 B.C. : tree-ring evidence from northern Fennoscandia / Pentti Zetterberg, Matti Eronen & Markus Lindholm -- The climatic interpretation of Holocene megafossils of pine, Pinus sylvestris L., from the mountain area of southern Norway : the importance of the precession in controlling Holocene climate / Lotte Selsing -- Pollen influx in traps along a height transect on mount Ádjit, Troms, northern Norway / Torbjørn Alm -- The Feasibility of using pollen deposition data as climatic indices / Sheila Hicks -- Late-glacial and postglacial fluctuations of the tree limits in the Mediterranean Pyrenees : the use of pollen ratios / Guy Jalut ... [et al.] -- Synthesis of the Holocene history of vegetation in northern Iceland / Margrét Hallsdóttir.
3. Holocene vegetation, climate and glacier histories in the Jostedalsbreen region, western Norway : palaeoecological interpretations from an alpine peat deposit / Nina Torske -- Holocene vegetation history and forest-limit fluctuations in Smådalen, eastern Jotunheimen, South Norway / Helga Gunnarsdóttir -- Late Holocene vegetation and climate changes interpreted from pollen influx and plant macrofossils from sediments of an alpine lake in north Norway / Karl-Dag Vorren & Annette Stavseth. -- Holocene pine, Pinus sylvestris L., and grey alder, Alnus incana Moench, immigration and areal oscillations in central Troms, northern Norway, and their palaeoclimatic implications / Karl-Dag Vorren, Torbjøorn Alm & Brynhild Møorkved -- Parallel trends of Holocene tree-line changes and lake and mire development in northwestern Finnish Lapland / Hannu Hyvärinen & Eeva Mäkelä.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Papers originally presented at a symposium which was held at the Tromsø University Field Station at Skibotn, Troms, 6-8 Sept. 1993.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

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