Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2071-2086

  Müller, Stefanie ^a   Tarasov, Pavel E ^a   Andreev, Andrei A ^b   Tütken, Thomas ^c   Gartz, Steffi ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CIRCLE; ASTERACEAE; CHENOPODIACEAE; CYPERACEAE; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLES; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EPHEDRA; FOSSIL POLLENS; HIGH-CONTENT; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; LATE QUATERNARY; MAXIMUM VALUES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POACEAE; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POLLEN ASSEMBLAGE; POLLEN PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; ROSACEAE; VEGETATION COVER; VERKHOYANSK; YAKUTIA; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REPAIR;

VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FOSSIL RECORD; HERB; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SHRUB; TUNDRA; VEGETATION COVER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; LAKES; MAINTENANCE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LAKE BILLYAKH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; VERKHOYANSK MOUNTAINS;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ALNUS; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; ASTERACEAE; BETULA; CYPERACEAE; EPHEDRA; LARIX; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POACEAE; ROSACEAE; SALIX; THALICTRUM;

EID: 77955270204     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.024     Document Type: Article

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