Biomization and quantitative climate reconstruction techniques in northwestern Mexico-With an application to four Holocene pollen sequences

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 242-266

  Ortega Rosas, C I ^a   Guiot, J ^a   Penalba M C ^b   Ortiz Acosta, M E ^c  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^c CETYS Universidad   (Mexico)

Author keywords

biomes reconstruction; Holocene variability; monsoon; NW Mexico; quantitative climate reconstruction; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CHIHUAHUA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SONORA; SONORAN DESERT;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 41849098932     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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