Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation, climate and fire dynamics in the Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1661-1671

  Behling, Hermann ^a   Safford, Hugh Deforest ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Campos de altitude; Fire history; Late Quaternary; Montane Atlantic rain forest; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoecology; Pollen; Tropical mountain; Younger Dryas chronozone

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND; POLLEN; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SERRA DO MAR; SERRA DOS ORGAOS;

ARAUCARIA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 77953677193     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02029.x     Document Type: Article

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