Impact of modern pollen rain studies from South and Little Andaman Islands, India, to interpret present and past vegetation

Current Science

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1251-1256

  Singh, Shilpa ^a   Kar, Ratan ^a   Khandelwal, Asha ^b  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Mangroves; Palynological analysis; Pollen rain; South and Little Andaman Islands

Indexed keywords

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 78650958967     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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