Mountain forest islands and Holocene environmental changes in Central Asia: A case study from the southern Gobi Altay, Mongolia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 250, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 150-166

  Miehe, Georg ^a   Schlütz, Frank ^b   Miehe, Sabine ^a   Opgenoorth, Lars ^a   Cermak, Jan ^a   Samiya, Ravčigijn ^c   Jäger, Eckehart J ^d   Wesche, Karsten ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Mongolian National University Nuclear Research Center   (Mongolia)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boreal taiga forest; Central Asia; Climate change; Gobi desert; Holocene forest decline; Human impact; Plant distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ISLAND; MONTANE FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOVI-ALTAY; MONGOLIA;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; SALIX;

EID: 34249330624     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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