Late Holocene multi-proxy records of environmental change on the South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 539-560

  Ljung, Karl ^a   Björck, Svante ^a   Hammarlund, Dan ^a   Barnekow, Lena ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydrological changes; Late Holocene; Pollen analysis; South Atlantic Ocean; Tristan da Cunha; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST COVER; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SAINT HELENA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

RUMEX;

EID: 33750434855     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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