Vegetation reconstruction on the basis of pollen in Late Pleistocene hyena coprolites from San Teodoro Cave (Sicily, Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-39

  Yll, R ^a   Carrion J S ^b   Marra, A C ^c   Bonfiglio, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coprolites; Hyena; Late Pleistocene; Palynology; Sicily

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COPROLITE; LATE GLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ABIES; ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ALNUS; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; ASTERACEAE; BETULA; BETULACEAE; CROCUTA CROCUTA; CUPRESSACEAE; EPHEDRA; PISTACIA; PISTACIA VERA; POACEAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 33745713502     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.027     Document Type: Article

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