Late Quaternary vegetation reconstruction from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 326-341

  Mumbi, C T ^a,b   Marchant, R ^b   Hooghiemstra, H ^c   Wooller, M J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Arc Mountains; Ecosystem stability; LGM; Pollen; Spores

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CORE ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPORE; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPROPHILOUS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; PODOCARPUS; PSYCHOTRIA;

EID: 40949155864     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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