Impact of a drier Early-Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1498, 2008, Pages 1829-1838

  Mayle, Francis E ^a   Power, Mitchell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon tropical forest; Charcoal; Climate; Fire; Holocene; Pollen

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIEBACK; DOMINANCE; DROUGHT; ECOTONE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RAINFOREST; REPLACEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 41649094351     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.0019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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