A short summary of my forty years in paleolimnology

Ingemar Renberg

doi:10.1007/s10933-013-9698-6

Journal of Paleolimnology

January 2014, Volume 51, Issue 1, pp 145–153

A short summary of my forty years in paleolimnology

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First Online:: 26 March 2013

Received:: 14 December 2012
Accepted:: 20 February 2013

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