Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (Ocean Drilling Program Site 1078)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-124

  Dupont, L M ^a   Behling, H ^b   Kim, J H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; RANGE EXPANSION; SAVANNA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; ANGOLA; ANTARCTICA; BENGUELA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONGO; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 46649114143     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-4-107-2008     Document Type: Article

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