Life on the periphery is tough: Vegetation in Northwest Iceland and its responses to early-Holocene warmth and later climate fluctuations

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  The Holocene

• Publication date

  2015-05-26

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0959683615585839
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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