Vegetation and climate changes during the last 21 000 years in S.W. Africa based on a marine pollen record

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 127-140

  Shi, Ning ^a   Dupont, Lydie M ^b   Beug, Hans Jürgen ^a   Schneider, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Human impact; Late pleistocene; Marine pollen record; S.W. Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444455012     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01374001     Document Type: Article

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