Vegetation disturbance and human population in Columbia - A regional reconstruction

Antiquity

Volumn 78, Issue 302, 2004, Pages 828-838

  Marchant, Robert ^a   Behling, Hermann ^b   Berrio, Juan Carlos ^c   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^c   van Geel, Bas ^c   van der Hammen, Thomas ^c,d   Herrera, Luisa ^e   Melief, Bert ^c   van Reenen, Guido ^c   Wille, Michael ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Fundacion Tropenbos Colombia   (Colombia)

^e Fundacion Erigaie   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biome; Colombia; Degraded vegetation; Environmental change; Pollen

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALEOECOLOGY; REGIONAL PATTERN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20044381285     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0011347X     Document Type: Article

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