Millennial-scale variability in vegetation records from the East Asian Islands: Taiwan, Japan and Sakhalin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 2900-2917

  Takahara, Hikaru ^a   Igarashi, Yaeko ^b   Hayashi, Ryoma ^a   Kumon, Fujio ^c   Liew, Ping Mei ^d   Yamamoto, Masanobu ^e   Kawai, Sayuri ^c   Oba, Tadamichi ^e   Irino, Tomohisa ^e  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for Paleoenvironment of Northern Regions   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADLEAF FOREST; BROADLEAF TREES; CONIFER FORESTS; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVERGREEN TREES; FAGUS CRENATA; HEINRICH EVENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOKKAIDO; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MIXED FORESTS; NORTHERN REGIONS; SEA OF JAPAN; SMALL SCALE; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS; SUMMER MONSOON; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION RESPONSE; WARM CONDITIONS; WESTERN JAPAN; WET CONDITIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SECURITY OF DATA; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BIOME; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; HISTORICAL RECORD; INFLOW; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; PHASES; PLANTS; SNOW;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SEA OF JAPAN; TAIWAN;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; FAGUS; FAGUS CRENATA;

EID: 77956546871     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.026     Document Type: Article

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