Crop water availability in early agriculture: Evidence from carbon isotope discrimination of seeds from a tenth millennium BP site on the Euphrates

Global Change Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-212

  Araus, J L ^b   Febrero, A ^b   Catala, M ^b   Molist, M ^b   Voltas, J ^a   Romagosa, I ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Early agriculture; Flax; Lentil; Stable carbon isotope discrimination; Water regime; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; WATER BUDGET;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

LENS CULINARIS; LENS ORIENTALIS; LINUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DURUM;

EID: 0033036887     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1999.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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