Interactions between vegetation and climate variability: what are the lessons of models and paleovegetation data

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Guiot, Joël ^a   Hély Alleaume, Christelle ^a   Wu, Haibin ^b,c   Gaucherel, Cédric ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Inverse modelling; Last glacial maximum; Mediterranean forest; Pollen; Tree growth; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOREST; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 52949145659     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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