Vegetation and fire history of a Chinese site in southern tropical Xishuangbanna derived from phytolith and charcoal records from Holocene sediments

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-341

  Gu, Yansheng ^a   Pearsall, Deborah M ^b   Xie, Shucheng ^a   Yu, Jianxin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal; China; Climate change; Fire history; Holocene sediments; Phytoliths; Tropical rain forest; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FIRE HISTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PHYTOLITH; RAINFOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

POACEAE;

EID: 38349174746     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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