Late glacial and Holocene vegetation, Indian monsoon and westerly circulation in the Trans-Himalaya recorded in the lacustrine pollen sequence from Tso Kar, Ladakh, NW India

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 279, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 172-185

  Demske, Dieter ^a   Tarasov, Pavel E ^a   Wünnemann, Bernd ^a   Riedel, Frank ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Holocene; Indian monsoon; Late glacial; North western India; Pollen record; Vegetation reconstruction; Westerly winds

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DESERT; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LATE GLACIAL; MEADOW; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA; TSO KAR;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; GENTIANACEAE; PINUS ROXBURGHII; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 67649460592     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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