Disturbed vegetation reconstruction using the biomization method from Japanese pollen data: Modern and Late Quaternary samples

Quaternary International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-74

  Gotanda, Katsuya ^a   Nakagawa, Takeshi ^b   Tarasov, Pavel E ^c   Yasuda, Yoshinori ^d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE   (Japan)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

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EID: 44649165856     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.09.030     Document Type: Article

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