Holocene altitudinal shifts in vegetation belts and environmental changes in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Northwestern Mexico, based on modern and fossil pollen data

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Ortega Rosas, C I ^a   Penalba M C ^b   Guiot, J ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

climate; Holocene; Mexico; migration rate; pollen analysis; Sierra Madre Occidental; vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; MIGRATION; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL;

ABIES; BURSERA LAXIFLORA; BURSERACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; QUERCUS;

EID: 45849125762     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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