Early fire and forest change in the Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 453-461

  Hope, Geoffrey ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire history; Forest clearance; Pleistocene; Prehistory; Tropics; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIRE HISTORY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BALIEM VALLEY; INDONESIA; IRIAN JAYA;

EID: 0031723430     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.2530453.x     Document Type: Article

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