Vegetation and environmental constancy in the Neotropical Guayana Highlands during the last 6000 years?

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 205-222

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Holocene; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoecology; Palynology; South America; Tropics; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BOLIVAR [VENEZUELA]; GUAYANA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TEPUIA;

EID: 22244472332     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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