Changes in carbon isotope discrimination in grain cereals from different regions of the western Mediterranean Basin during the past seven millennia. Palaeoenvironmental evidence of a differential change in aridity during the late Holocene

Global Change Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-118

  Araus, J L ^a   Febrero, A ^a   Buxo, R ^b   Camalich, M D ^c   Martin, D ^c   Molina, F ^d   Rodriguez Ariza, M O ^d   Romagosa, I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Ctr Investigacions A   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archaeological plant remains; Cereals; Palaeoclimate; Precipitation; Stable carbon isotope discrimination; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE VEGETATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALAEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 0031461498     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1997.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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