Palaeoenvironments of insular Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period: A savanna corridor in Sundaland?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 20-21, 2005, Pages 2228-2242

  Bird, Michael I ^a   Taylor, David ^b   Hunt, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD (LGP); PALYNOLOGY; RAINFORESTS;

VEGETATION;

LAST GLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SAVANNA; VEGETATION;

FORESTS; GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 24944441725     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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