Glacial and interglacial refugia within a long-term rainforest refugium: The Wet Tropics Bioregion of NE Queensland, Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-118

  Hilbert, David W ^a   Graham, Andrew ^a   Hopkins, Mike S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Late Quaternary; Palaeoenvironmental modelling; Pleistocene; Rainforest distributions

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PALUMA RANGE; QUEENSLAND; WALTER HILL RANGE;

EID: 34447100483     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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