Modern pollen rain from the Biligirirangan-Melagiri hills of southern Eastern Ghats, India

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 175-196

  Anupama, K ^a   Ramesh, B R ^a   Bonnefille, R ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Deciduous forests; Humidity and physiognomic gradients; Modern pollen rain; Southeast India; Vegetation types

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; POLLEN; POLLEN RAIN; VEGETATION;

INDIA;

EID: 0034127505     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(99)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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