Are modern savannas degraded forests ? - A Holocene pollen record from the Sudanian vegetation zone of NE Nigeria

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-15

  Salzmann, Ulrich ^a  

^a Sem fur vor und Fruhgeschichte   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Pollen analysis; Savanna; Vegetation history; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034410341     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01295010     Document Type: Article

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