Pollen-based vegetation changes in southern Tanzania during the last 4200 years: Climate change and/or human impact

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 321-334

  Vincens, Annie ^a   Williamson, David ^a   Thevenon, Florian ^a   Taieb, Maurice ^a   Buchet, Guillaume ^a   Decobert, Michel ^a   Thouveny, Nicolas ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Human activity; Late Holocene; Pollen; Southern Tanzania; Zambezian woodland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; VEGETATION HISTORY; WOODLAND;

(SOUTH); TANZANIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0141750469     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00473-5     Document Type: Article

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