On the connexion of vegetation dynamics with climatic changes in High Asia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 5-24

  Miehe, Georg ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; THERMAL OSCILLATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA, HIMALAYAS; ASIA, KARAKORUM;

EID: 0029757606     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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