Biomass burning in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: Natural and human induced fire events in the fossil record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 171, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 259-268

  Haberle, Simon G ^a   Hope, Geoff S ^b   Van Der Kaars, Sander ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Fire; Human impact; Indonesia; Microscopic charcoal; Monsoon; Papua New Guinea

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMASS BURNING; FIRE; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0035878192     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00248-6     Document Type: Article

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