Birks, Harry John B.; Tinner, Willy (2016). Past forests of Europe. In: San-Miguel-Ayanz, J.; de Rigo, D.; Caudullo, G.; Houston Durrant, T.; Mauri, A. (eds.) European Atlas of Forest Tree Species (pp. 36-39). Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union
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European forests have varied in their composition, structure, and extent over the last 5 million years or more in response to global climate changes. European forests have also undergone very major changes due to the alternating glacial-interglacial cycles of the Quaternary (last 2.6 million years). European forests have greatly changed in their extent and structure in the last 5 000 years due to human activities (the Homo sapiens phase) in the current Holocene interglacial in which we live. Contemporary ecologists and foresters can learn from ‘lessons from the past’ about forest responses and resilience to environmental changes in the past.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Palaeoecology 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Tinner, Willy |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) |
ISBN: |
978-92-79-52833-0 |
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Publication Office of the European Union |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas |
Date Deposited: |
06 Apr 2016 10:00 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:55 |
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BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.80787 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/80787 |
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