Late Holocene hydrologic and vegetation changes at Turneffe Atoll, Belize, compared with records from mainland Central America and Mexico

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 650-656

  Wooller, Matthew J ^a,b   Behling, Hermann ^c   Guerrero, Juan Leon ^b   Jantz, Nele ^c   Zweigert, Martin E ^c  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DOMINANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER INPUT; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MANGROVE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TURNEFFE ISLANDS;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; MORELLA CERIFERA; MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SALICORNIA BIGELOVII;

EID: 77949629943     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-036r     Document Type: Article

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