Large Scale Anthropogenic Reduction of Forest Cover in Last Glacial Maximum Europe

Reconstructions of the vegetation of Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are an enigma. Pollen-based analyses have suggested that Europe was largely covered by steppe and tundra, and forests persisted only in small refugia. Climate-vegetation model simulations on the other hand have consist...

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Main Authors: Kaplan, Jed O., Pfeiffer, Mirjam, Kolen, Jan C. A., Davis, Basil A. S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5130213/