A long record of environmental change from bat guano deposits in Makangit Cave, Palawan, Philippines

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-69

  Bird, Michael I ^a   Boobyer, Ella M ^a   Bryant, Charlotte ^b   Lewis, Helen A ^c   Paz, Victor ^d   Stephens, W Edryd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope; Palaeoenvironment; Quaternary; Radiocarbon; Sundaland

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; GRASSLAND; GUANO; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; MAKANGIT CAVE; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PALAWAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN TAGALOG; SUNDA ISLES;

AVES;

EID: 42149091610     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691007000059     Document Type: Article

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