Vegetation and climate history of montane Costa Rica since the last glacial

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 589-604

  Islebe, G A ^a,b   Hooghiemstra, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b El Col de Pa Frontera Sur AP 424 ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; MONTANE VEGETATION; PALAEOCLIMATE; PARAMO; PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE TRANSITION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA, CORDILLERA DE TALAMANCA;

EID: 0030796021     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(96)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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