New approaches to understanding late Quaternary climate fluctuations and refugial dynamics in Australian wet tropical rain forests

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-301

  VanDerwal, Jeremy ^a   Shoo, Luke P ^a   Williams, Stephen E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Wet Tropics; Historical refugia; Palaeovegetation modelling; Pleistocene refugia; Quaternary climate fluctuations; Vegetation modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58449102703     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01993.x     Document Type: Article

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