Late Quaternary vegetation, fire and climate history reconstructed from two cores at Cerro Toledo, Podocarpus National Park, southeastern Ecuadorian Andes

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 388-399

  Brunschön, Corinna ^a   Behling, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate dynamics; Ecuador; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Palynology; Vegetation and fire history

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ANDES; ECUADOR; PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AMERICA;

PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO RIGIDA; POACEAE; PODOCARPUS;

EID: 70349970026     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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