Did an extensive forest ever develop on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the past 130 ka?: A test using soil carbon isotopic signatures

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 519-527

  Liu, Weiguo ^a   Yang, Hong ^b   Cao, Yunning ^a   Ning, Youfeng ^a   Li, Li ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

ISOTOPIC RATIO; PALYNOLOGICAL METHOD; PLATEAU; PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST COVER; LOESS; PLATEAU; QUATERNARY; SOIL CARBON; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CARBON; CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SEDIMENTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 13244283411     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2004.09.007     Document Type: Article

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