Climate change and vegetation succession in lalitpur area, uttar pradesh (india) during late holocene

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-77

  Farooqui, Anjum ^a   Sekhar, B ^a  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate; India; Lake sediment; Late holocene; Succession; Uttar pradesh; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; POPULATION DECLINE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER DEPTH;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

HOPEA; SHOREA;

EID: 78149399228     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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