Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and fire dynamics inferred from the El Tiro record in the southeastern Ecuadorian Andes

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-212

  Niemann, Holger ^a   Behling, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Palynology pollen; South America; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PARAMO; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; SPORE; VEGETATION;

ANDES; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYRSINE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO AUSTRALIS; PLANTAGO RIGIDA; POACEAE; PODOCARPACEAE; PODOCARPUS;

EID: 40749159578     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1134     Document Type: Article

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