Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a   Tarasov, Pavel ^b   Wünnemann, Bernd ^a   Hartmann, Kai ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Alashan Gobi; China; Eastern Juyan palaeolake; Holocene vegetation and climate; Recent and fossil pollen spectra

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; EPHEDRA; EPHEDRA DISTACHYA; EPHEDRA FRAGILIS; NITRARIA; REAUMURIA;

EID: 3843088237     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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