48,000 Years of Climate and Forest Change in a Biodiversity Hot Spot

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5659, 2004, Pages 827-829

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Urrego, Dunia H ^a  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY STABILITY; PALEOECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PERU; PLANTS; POLLEN; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0842331446     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090795     Document Type: Article

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