Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China I: phytolith-based transfer functions

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 945-959

  Lu, Hou Yuan ^a   Wu, Nai Qin ^a   Yang, Xiang Dong ^b   Jiang, Hui ^c,d   Liu, Kam biu ^e   Liu, Tung Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ECOLOGY; EVAPORATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (CCA); DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (DCA); PHYTOLITH-BASED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

TECTONICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOLITH; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33646384413     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.014     Document Type: Article

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