Holocene treeline shifts and monsoon variability in the Hengduan Mountains (southeastern Tibetan Plateau), implications from palynological investigations

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 23-41

  Kramer, Annette ^a,b   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,c   Mischke, Steffen ^b   Zhang, Chengjun ^d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomisation; Holocene; Human impact; Monsoon; Multivariate analysis; Pollen analysis; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CORE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHRUB; TREELINE;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES; BETULA; RHODODENDRON;

EID: 74449087788     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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