Amazonian paleoecological histories: One hill, three watersheds

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-393

  Bush, M B ^a   De Oliveira, P E ^b,c   Colinvaux, P A ^d   Miller, M C ^e   Moreno, J E ^f  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GUARULHOS UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

cation; climate history; cooling; fossil pollen; ice age; insolation; lake level; Milankovitch; Pleistocene; precession; South America

Indexed keywords

LAKE LEVEL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE;

EID: 7644225992     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(04)00401-8     Document Type: Article

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