The climate of the Holocene and its landscape and biotic impacts

Sherilyn C. Fritz

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.20602

The climate of the Holocene and its landscape and biotic impacts

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1

By: Sherilyn C. Fritz

Open Access

|Jan 2013

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