A general cooling trend on the central Tibetan Plateau throughout the Holocene recorded by the Lake Zigetang pollen spectra

Quaternary International

Volumn 154-155, Issue , 2006, Pages 113-121

  Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b   Winter, Katja ^c   Wünnemann, Bernd ^c   Li, Shijie ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOLOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

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

AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; CYPERACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 33747332609     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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