A method to determine warm and cool steppe biomes from pollen data; application to the Mediterranean and Kazakhstan regions

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 335-344

  Tarasov, Pavel E ^a,b   Cheddadi, Rachid ^b,c   Guiot, Joel ^b   Bottema, Sytze ^d   Peyron, Odile ^b,e   Belmonte, Jordina ^f   Ruiz Sanchez, Vittoria ^b,g   Saadi, Fatima ^b   Brewer, Simon ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Centre Universitaire d'Arles   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e CEREGE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION;

KAZAKHSTAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0031733480     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199807/08)13:4<335::AID-JQS375>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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