Reliability of pollen ratios for environmental reconstructions on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1265-1273

  Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Palaeoecology; Palaeovegetation; Palynology; Pollen ratio; Pollen transport; Surface pollen spectra; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLATEAU; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 34250778964     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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