Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1443, 2004, Pages 499-514

  Mayle, Francis E ^a,d   Beerling, David J ^b   Gosling, William D ^a,c   Bush, Mark B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon tropical forest; Carbon dioxide; Holocene; Last glacial maximum; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642389473     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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