Coleopteran faunas as indicators of interglacial climates in central and southern England

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1507-1514

  Coope, G Russell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITAIN; BRITISH ISLES; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENGLAND; EXOTIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; HOLOCENES; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; INTERGLACIALS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NUMBER OF SPECIES; THERMAL MAXIMA;

ISOTOPES;

ANIMALS;

BEETLE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; INTERGLACIAL; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MIXED FOREST; PALEOCLIMATE; RANGE SIZE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954814814     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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