Late Holocene forest disturbance in Gisborne, New Zealand: A comparison of terrestrial and marine pollen records

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 523-540

  Wilmshurst, Janet M ^a   Eden, Dennis N ^b,d   Froggatt, Paul C ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Deforestation; Disturbance; El Nino; Fire; Human impact; New Zealand; Pollen; Poverty Bay; Tephra; Vegetation history; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

DACRYCARPUS DACRYDIOIDES; DEFORESTATION; FOREST; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEW ZEALAND; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOLOCENE; POLLEN; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NEW ZEALAND;

DACRYCARPUS DACRYDIOIDES; DACRYDIUM CUPRESSINUM; FILICOPHYTA; PRUMNOPITYS TAXIFOLIA;

EID: 0032706569     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1999.9512651     Document Type: Article

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