Colombian dry moist forest transitions in the Llanos Orientales-A comparison of model and pollen-based biome reconstructions

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-44

  Marchant, Robert ^a   Berrío, Juan Carlos ^b,c   Behling, Hermann ^d   Boom, Arnoud ^b   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biome; Colombia; Environmental change; Llanos Orientales; Pollen; Vegetation modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRY FOREST; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SAVANNA;

LLANOS; SOUTH AMERICA;

BYRSONIMA; CURATELLA; EMBRYOPHYTA; POACEAE;

EID: 33748684365     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.028     Document Type: Article

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