Fire and drought as drivers of early Holocene tree line changes in the Peruvian Andes

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-36

  Urrego, Dunia H ^a   Niccum, Brittany A ^a   La Drew, Christopher F ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Bush, Mark B ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal record; Drought; Fire; Holocene; Human disturbance; Pleistocene; Pollen record; Tree line

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; FIRE; FOREST COVER; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE; LAND USE CHANGE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TREELINE;

ANDES; PERU;

POLYLEPIS;

EID: 78751527763     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1422     Document Type: Article

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