Lake sediment records on climate change and human activities since the Holocene in Erhai catchment, Yunnan Province, China

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-363

  Shen, Ji ^a   Yang, Liyuan ^a   Yang, Xiangdong ^a   Matsumoto, R ^b   Tong, Guobang ^c   Zhu, Yuxin ^a   Zhang, Zhenke ^d   Wang, Sumin ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Erhai Lake in Yunnan Province; Holocene; Human activity; Lake sediment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; MINING; MOISTURE;

ERHAI LAKE IN WESTERN YUNNAN; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; YUNNAN;

EID: 27844531191     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd0118     Document Type: Article

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