Last glacial-interglacial vegetation and environmental dynamics in southern Siberia: Chronology, forcing and feedbacks

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 185-198

  Bezrukova, Elena V ^a   Tarasov, Pavel E ^b   Solovieva, Nadia ^c   Krivonogov, Sergey K ^d   Riedel, Frank ^b  

^a ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eurasia; Holocene climatic optimum; Last glacial maximum; Late Pleistocene interstadials; Pollen and diatom records; Quantitative vegetation reconstruction; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HYPSITHERMAL; ICE CORE; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STALAGMITE; STEPPE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BURYATIA; KOTOKEL LAKE; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 77956058592     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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