Assessment of the Neotropical dry forest refugia hypothesis in the light of palaeoecological data and vegetation model simulations

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 713-720

  Mayle, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Last Glacial Maximum; Pollen; Refugia; Seasonally dry tropical forest; South America

Indexed keywords

DRY FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; REFUGIUM; TROPICAL FOREST;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANADENANTHERA;

EID: 12444340891     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.887     Document Type: Article

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