The Last Glacial Maximum: Stability and change in a western Amazonian cloud forest

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 693-701

  Urrego, Dunia H ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Bush, Mark B ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest constancy; Lake Consuelo; Last Glacial Maximum; Species migrations; Western Amazonian cloud forests

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 29744450286     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.976     Document Type: Article

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