A 22,000-year record of vegetation change in the north-central Sonoran Desert

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 253-275

  McAuliffe, Joseph R ^a   Van Devender, Thomas R ^b  

^a DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Neotoma; Packrat middens; Paleoclimate; Quaternary; Sonoran Desert

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UNITED STATES, ARIZONA, SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 0031927123     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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