Millennial-scale changes in vegetation records from tropical Africa and South America during the last glacial

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 2882-2899

  Hessler, Ines ^a   Dupont, Lydie ^a   Bonnefille, Raymonde ^b   Behling, Hermann ^c   González, Catalina ^d   Helmens, Karin F ^e   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^f   Lebamba, Judicael ^h   Ledru, Marie Pierre ⁱ   Lézine, Anne Marie ^g   Maley, Jean ^h   Marret, Fabienne ^j   Vincens, Annie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL; MIGRATION PATTERNS; POLLEN DATA; SOUTH AMERICA; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; VEGETATION;

TROPICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIGRATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77956537494     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.029     Document Type: Article

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