Holocene vegetation change, Aboriginal wetland use and the impact of European settlement on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-215

  Bickford, Sophia ^a,b   Gell, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal land use; Australia; Climate change; European impact; Fleurieu Peninsula; Holocene; Palynology; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; FLEURIEU PENINSULA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

ACACIA; ALLOCASUARINA; ALLOCASUARINA VERTICILLATA; EUCALYPTUS; LEPTOSPERMUM; TYPHA; VERTICILLATA;

EID: 15944401423     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl800rp     Document Type: Article

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