Modern pollen rain in savanna and forest ecosystems of Gabon and Cameroon, Central Atlantic Africa

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 34-45

  Lebamba, Judicaël ^a   Vincens, Annie ^b   Jolly, Dominique ^a   Ngomanda, Alfred ^c   Schevin, Patrick ^a   Maley, Jean ^a   Bentaleb, Ilhem ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale IRET/CENAREST   (Gabon)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Central Atlantic Africa; correspondence analysis; forest; modern pollen spectra; palynology; savanna

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHOD; PALYNOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN RAIN; SAVANNA;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

BURSERACEAE; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; MACARANGA; MARGARITARIA DISCOIDEA; NAUCLEA; POACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; TETRORCHIDIUM; UAPACA; ZANTHOXYLUM;

EID: 56449102209     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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