Climate as the dominant control on C3 and C4 plant abundance in the Loess Plateau: Organic carbon isotope evidence from the last glacial-interglacial loess-soil sequences

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1271-1276

  Gu, Zhaoyan ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Xu, Bing ^a   Han, Jiamao ^a   Yang, Shiling ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

13Corg; C3 C4 plants; Holocene; LGM; Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 13244263436     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wd0200     Document Type: Article

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