Vegetation history of the SE section of the Zagros Mountains during the last five millennia; a pollen record from the Maharlou Lake, Fars Province, Iran

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-136

  Djamali, Morteza ^a,d   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^a   Miller, Naomi F ^b   Andrieu Ponel, Valérie ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a   Lak, Razieh ^c   Sadeddin, Nasser ^c   Akhani, Hossein ^d   Fazeli, Hassan ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Human impact; Persian Empires; Zagros

Indexed keywords

JUGLANS; PISTACIA; PISTACIA VERA; PLATANUS; PRUNUS; QUERCUS BRANTII; VITACEAE; VITIS;

EID: 59149098281     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0178-2     Document Type: Article

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