Satellite- and pollen-based quantitative woody cover reconstructions for northern Asia: Verification and application to late-Quaternary pollen data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 284-298

  Tarasov, Pavel ^a   Williams, John W ^b   Andreev, Andrei ^c   Nakagawa, Takeshi ^d   Bezrukova, Elena ^e   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^c   Igarashi, Yaeko ^f   Müller, Stefanie ^a   Werner, Kirstin ^c   Zheng, Zhuo ^g  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f Institute for Paleoenvironment of Northern Regions   (Japan)

^g SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AVHRR; best modern analogue approach; Holocene; last glacial maximum; Northern Asia; pollen spectra; woody cover

Indexed keywords

BEST-MODERN-ANALOGUES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE-QUATERNARY VEGETATION COVER; WOODY COVER;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

REFORESTATION;

AVHRR; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION COVER; WOODY PLANT;

FOSSILS; LARIX; PLANTS; POLLEN; POPULUS; PRECIPITATION; REFORESTATION; SIBERIA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; MONGOLIA;

LARIX; POPULUS;

EID: 36048960845     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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