Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Preface
 
<strong><strong>1 </strong><strong>Geoarchives &ndash; why the view into the past?</strong></strong>
1.1 Introduction and objectives
1.2 Reasons and scales for climate changes
1.3 Archives and methods
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<strong>2 </strong><strong>The Pirin Mountains as a model region</strong>
2.1 Location and Ecosystem Characteristics
2.2 Geology and Morphodynamic
<strong>2.3 Water in the Pirin Mountains</strong>
2.4 Soil and Biosphere
2.5 Pirin National Park &ndash; potentials and anthropogenic interference
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<strong>3 </strong>Holocene climate and landscape chronology</strong>
3.1 W&uuml;rm glaciation and Late-glacial development
3.2 Climate and vegetation during the Holocene
3.3 Outline of cultural-historical dynamics
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<strong>4 </strong><strong>Climate data and geo-archives of the younger past</strong>
4.1 Characterisation of contemporary local climate change
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.2. Analysis of meteorological observations
4.1.3. Regional climate aspects
4.1.4. Climate change and climate trend
4.2 Pirin&rsquo;s glacier features as climate indicator
4.2.1 Introduction
4.2.2 The recent glaciation of high mountains in southeastern Europe
4.2.3 Investigation methods and application to Snezhnika Glacieret
4.2.3 The response to climate change
4.3 The timberline ecotones as key
4.3.1 Introduction
4.3.2 Timberline characteristic of the northern Pirin study area
4.4 Dendroecology of Pinus heldreichii
4.4.1 Conifers as geoarchive
4.4.2 Methodological approach
4.4.3 Development of chronologies
4.4.4 Climate growth relation
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<strong>5 Specifics of the regional climate and landscape history</strong>
5.1 Changes on millennial timescale
5.2 Climate development of the region during the Younger Modern History
5.3 The recent climate change
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<strong>6 Conclusion and outlook</strong>
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<strong><strong>Indexes </strong></strong>
<strong>Abbreviations</strong>
<strong>Geographical features (Pirin region)</strong>
Latin plant and animal names
Time periods
Subjects