A 10,300 14C yr record of climate and vegetation change from Haiti

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-170

  Higuera Gundy, Antonia ^a,d   Brenner, Mark ^b   Hodell, David A ^b   Curtis, Jason H ^b   Leyden, Barbara W ^c   Binford, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Deforestation; Geochemistry; Haiti; Lake sediment; Paleoclimate; Paleoecology; Pollen; Stable isotopes; Taino; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

HAITI;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033373250     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2062     Document Type: Article

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