Pollen-based differentiation of Amazonian rainforest communities and implications for lowland palaeoecology in tropical South America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Burn, Michael J ^a,b   Mayle, Francis E ^a   Killeen, Timothy J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c Centre for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^d Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Multivariate analysis; Pollen vegetation relationships; Quaternary palaeoecology; Rainforest communities; Riparian; Terra firme

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HETEROGENEITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RAINFOREST; RIPARIAN FOREST;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 77955276668     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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