A Holocene Pollen record from Lowland Tropical Australia

The Holocene

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 107-116

  Shulmeister, James ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Holocene; palaeoecology; pollen; tropics; vegetation history

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD LAKE; DUNEFIELD LAKE; EUCAPLYPTUS; HOLOCENE; LAKE; POLLEN; POLLEN RECORD; PRECIPITATION; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIA, NORTHERN TERRITORY, GROOTE EYLANDT;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 0027042163     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369200200202     Document Type: Article

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