Tropical vegetational change in the late Pleistocene of New Caledonia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-21

  Hope, Geoff ^a   Pask, Johanna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire; Stability; Tropical forest; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NEW CALEDONIA;

GYMNOSTOMA; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 0032192596     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00140-5     Document Type: Article

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