The long-term ecology of the lost forests of la Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 499-514

  De Nascimento, Lea ^a,b   Willis, Katherine J ^b,c   Fernández Palacios, José María ^a,b   Criado, Constantino ^a   Whittaker, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Carpinus; Forest ecology; Holocene vegetation change; Human impact; Island ecology; Palaeoecology; Quercus; Tenerife

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

CARPINUS; JUNIPERUS; MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; PINUS CANARIENSIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 60349098993     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02012.x     Document Type: Article

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