Late Pleistocene and Holocene History at Mubwindi Swamp, Southwest Uganda

Quaternary Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 316-328

  Marchant, Robert ^a   Taylor, David ^a   Hamilton, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b World Wide Fund for Nature   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MONTANE FOREST; PLEISTOCENE; SWAMP; VEGETATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UGANDA, MUBWINDI SWAMP;

EID: 0031456783     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1887     Document Type: Article

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