A million-year record of fire in sub-Saharan Africa

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6695, 1998, Pages 767-769

  Bird, M I ^a   Cali, J A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOMASS BURNING; FIRE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032552055     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29507     Document Type: Article

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