Late Quaternary vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on the southern Brazilian highland and their implication for conservation and management of modern Araucaria forest and grassland ecosystems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1478, 2007, Pages 243-251

  Behling, Hermann ^a   Pillar, Valério DePatta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Araucaria forest; Campos (grassland); Conservation; Late Quaternary; Management; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CHARCOAL; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARAUCARIA FOREST; BRAZIL; PARANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARAUCARIA;

CARBON; CHARCOAL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CYTOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POACEAE; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT; STATISTICS; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHARCOAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FIRES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POACEAE; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 33847692376     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1984     Document Type: Article

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