African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6930, 2003, Pages 418-421

  Schefuß, Enno ^a,b   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Jansen, J H Fred ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); THERMAL EFFECTS;

ARIDITY;

VEGETATION;

CARBON 14; WAX;

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; DESERT; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS; VEGETATION; WIND;

AFRICA; ALKANES; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DUST; ICE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WAXES;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037468766     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01500     Document Type: Article

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