Vegetational ecotype of the Gyirong Basin in Tibet, China and its response in stable carbon isotopes of mammal tooth enamel

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1225-1229

  Deng, Tao ^a   Li, Yumei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

carbon isotope; climate and environment; mammal; Tibetan Plateau; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958101927     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03183697     Document Type: Article

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