Vegetation changes during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in Lebanon: A pollen record from the Bekaa Valley

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1089-1099

  Hajar, L ^a   Khater, C ^b   Cheddadi, R ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Holocene; Human impact; Lebanon; Mediterranean; Palaeovegetation; Pollen; Quaternary; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; VALLEY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; BEKAA VALLEY; BEQAA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; CEDRUS; CEDRUS LIBANI; QUERCUS; QUERCUS CERRIS;

EID: 60049095317     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608095580     Document Type: Review

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