springer.com Environment : Geoecology / Natural Processes Grunewald, Karsten, Scheithauer, Jörg Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains) The Balkan area is a hot spot of biodiversity but a white spot of dendrochronology, climate knowledge of the past, stystematic environment and landscape research. The landscape research approach with the analyses through multi-palaeo- geoecological proxies is new for the Balkans. Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High Springer mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding opportunity for studies on the impact of 2011, VIII, 161 p. 1st climate change. The Balkan Mountains in Southeast Europe, situated at the transition between edition temperate and Mediterranean climate, are considered as very sensitive to historical and current global changes. The geoarchives lake sediment, peat and soil, long living trees and glaciers have been used to reconstruct the climatically-driven change of forest and treeline during the Holocene and the younger past. These processes are interrelated with complex ecological Printed book changes, as for example the seasonality of climate parameters. The landscape research Hardcover approach with the analyses through multi-palaeo-geoecological proxies is new for the Balkans. Printed book Hardcover Order online at springer.com/booksellers ISBN 978-90-481-9958-7 Springer Nature Customer Service Center LLC $ 149,99 233 Spring Street Available New York, NY 10013 USA Discount group T: +1-800-SPRINGER NATURE Professional Books (2) (777-4643) or 212-460-1500 Product category [email protected] Monograph Other renditions Softcover ISBN 978-94-007-9012-4 Softcover ISBN 978-90-481-9960-0 Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. Americas: Tax will be added where applicable. Canadian residents please add PST, QST or GST. Please add $5.00 for shipping one book and $ 1.00 for each additional book. Outside the US and Canada add $ 10.00 for first book, $5.00 for each additional book. If an order cannot be fulfilled within 90 days, payment will be refunded upon request. Prices are payable in US currency or its equivalent. ISBN 978-90-481-9958-7 / BIC: PSAF / SPRINGER NATURE: SCU21006 Part of .