Natural and anthropogenic forest fires recorded in the Holocene pollen record from a Jinchuan peat bog, northeastern China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 47-57

  Jiang, Wenying ^a   Leroy, Suzanne A G ^b   Ogle, Neil ^c   Chu, Guoqiang ^a   Wang, Luo ^a   Liu, Jiaqi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fire; Holocene; Human activity; Northeastern China; Pollen record; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; MICROFOSSIL; PEATLAND; POLLEN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; JINCHUAN;

ABIES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEREALIA; CONIFERALES; JUGLANS; PICEA; QUERCUS; ULMUS; ZELKOVA;

EID: 41549116740     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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