Miocene to Pliocene vegetation reconstruction and climate estimates in the Iberian Peninsula from pollen data

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 403-415

  Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo ^a   Fauquette, Séverine ^b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Iberian Peninsula; Miocene; Pliocene; Pollen; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HERB; ICE SHEET; LATITUDE; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; POLLEN; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STEPPE; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION TYPE;

AFRICA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ARTEMISIA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 78650075884     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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