Vegetation and climate change on the Bolivian Altiplano between 108,000 and 18,000 yr ago

Quaternary Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-98

  Chepstow Lusty, Alex ^a,b   Bush, Mark B ^a   Frogley, Michael R ^c   Baker, Paul A ^d   Fritz, Sherilyn C ^e,f   Aronson, James ^g  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^g CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Andes; Iso tes; Myriophyllum; Paleohydrology; Pediastrum; Pollen; Polylepis tarapacana; Quaternary; Salar de Uyuni

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALTIPLANO; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ISOETES; MYRIOPHYLLUM; PEDIASTRUM; POLYLEPIS; POLYLEPIS TARAPACANA;

EID: 11044229007     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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