Amazonian and neotropical plant communities on glacial time-scales: The failure of the aridity and refuge hypotheses

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1-5, 2000, Pages 141-169

  Colinvaux, P A ^d   De Oliveira, P E ^a,b   Bush, M B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLEISTOCENE;

EID: 0033957763     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00059-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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