Temperature variability and vertical vegetation belt shifts during the last ∼50,000 yr in the Qilian Mountains (NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 133-146

  Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b   Kürschner, Harald ^c   Mischke, Steffen ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biome reconstruction; Late Quaternary; Marine Isotope Stage 3; Mountain vegetation; Pollen; Temperature change; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

BETULA; PICEA;

EID: 33745156471     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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