Quantitative climate and vegetation trends since the late glacial on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau deduced from Koucha Lake pollen spectra

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 162-171

  Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b   Kramer, Annette ^a   Mischke, Steffen ^c   Zhang, Chengjun ^d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Holocene; Late glacial; Ordination; Pollen analysis; Precipitation reconstruction; Temperature reconstruction; Tibetan Plateau; Transfer function; WA PLS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; HOLOCENE; ORDINATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; BAYAN HAR MOUNTAINS; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 60249099861     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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