Intensive land use in the Swedish mountains between AD 800 and 1200 led to deforestation and ecosystem transformation with long-lasting effects

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ambio

• Publication date

  2015-02-13

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1007/s13280-015-0634-zPMID 25678026PMCID PMC4552718
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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