Reconstructing the palaeoenvironments of the early Pleistocene mammal faunas from the pollen preserved on fossil bones

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 25-26, 2009, Pages 2940-2954

  Ravazzi, Cesare ^a   Pini, Roberta ^a   Breda, Marzia ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCES; FOREST COVER; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERMEDIATE PARTS; MAMMAL SPECIES; MINING ACTIVITIES; MIXED FORESTS; PLEISTOCENE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SKELETAL ELEMENTS; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; VEGETATION COMMUNITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

MAMMALS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BONE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOSSIL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAMMAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SKELETON;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS MERIDIONALIS; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 70350074461     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.07.022     Document Type: Article

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