From ice age to modern: A record of landscape change in an Andean cloud forest

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1637-1647

  Valencia, B G ^a   Urrego, D H ^a   Silman, M R ^b   Bush, M B ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Fossil pollen; Holocene; Human disturbance; Inca; Last Glacial Maximum; Maize; Migration; Peruvian Andes; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CLOUD FOREST; CULTIVATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAIZE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANDES; PERU;

CHENOPODIUM QUINOA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955597973     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02318.x     Document Type: Article

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