Numerical analysis of modern and fossil pollen data from the Tibetan Plateau

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 755-772

  Shen, Caiming ^a,c   Liu, Kam Biu ^b   Tang, Lingyu ^c   Overpeck, Jonathan ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Modern analogue; Pollen data; Tibetan Plateau; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL LAKE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 65449117215     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600802232342     Document Type: Article

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