Vegetation history, climate change and human activities over the last 6200years on the Liupan Mountains in the southwestern Loess Plateau in central China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 197-205

  Zhao, Yan ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Zhou, Aifeng ^a   Yu, Zicheng ^b   Zhang, Ke ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Climate change; Holocene; Human impact; Pollen; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEFORESTATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MIXED FOREST; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; LIUPAN MOUNTAINS;

ARTEMISIA; BETULA; PICEA; POACEAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 77954214882     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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