Late Quaternary environmental history of the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from the Lake Naleng non-pollen palynomorph record

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 453-468

  Kramer, Annette ^a,b   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a   Mischke, Steffen ^b   Zhang, Chengjun ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Holocene; Late Glacial; Multivariate statistics; Non pollen palynomorphs; Palaeoclimate; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649719524     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-009-0219-5     Document Type: Article

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