Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change inferred from the Cocha Caranga sediment and soil records in the southeastern Ecuadorian Andes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Niemann, Holger ^a   Behling, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Botryococcus; Ecuador; Fire history; Human impact; Mountain forest; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; MONTANE FOREST; PALYNOLOGY; PARAMO; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

ANDES; ECUADOR; PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOCOCCUS; BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; CHLOROPHYTA; CYPERACEAE; ISOETES; MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; PODOCARPUS; WEINMANNIA;

EID: 64949193661     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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