Late glacial vegetation and climate oscillations on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from the Lake Naleng pollen profile

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 324-335

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

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomisation; Late glacial; Monsoon; Multivariate analysis; Pollen analysis; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALLEROD; BOLLING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES; BETULA;

EID: 76849106456     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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