Ecological tree line history and palaeoclimate – review of megafossil evidence from the Swedish Scandes

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Boreas

• Publication date

  2013-07-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/bor.12003
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