Holocene climatic change and the nomadic Anthropocene in Eastern Tibet: palynological and geomorphological results from the Nianbaoyeze Mountains

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 1449-1471

  Schlütz, Frank ^a   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DEPOSITION; ALLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; ANTHROPOCENE; BRAIDED RIVER; CLIMATE DETERIORATION; CLIMATE HISTORY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMBINED EFFECT; COOLING PHASE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CYPERACEAE; GLACIAL ICE; HOLOCENE; HOT PLATES; LAST GLACIAL; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATEGLACIAL; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOCAL CONDITIONS; LOCAL CONTRAST; MASS MOVEMENT; MONSOON SYSTEM; NATURAL VEGETATION; PERIGLACIAL; POACEAE; PROXY DATA; SOIL COMPACTION; SURFACE ACTIVITIES; TERMINAL MORAINES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VALLEY FLOOR; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PEAT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAZING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LATE GLACIAL; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALYNOLOGY; PASTURE; PEAT; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CONSERVATION; COOLING; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PEAT; PLANTS; SOIL; TIBET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

ABIES; ANIMALIA; BETULA; BISTORTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CYPERACEAE; JUNIPERUS; KOBRESIA; KOBRESIA PYGMAEA; PICEA; POACEAE;

EID: 67349234135     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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