Vegetation response to obliquity and precession forcing during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in Western Mediterranean region (ODP site 976)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 280-297

  Joannin, Sébastien ^a,b   Bassinot, Franck ^c   Nebout, Nathalie Combourieu ^c   Peyron, Odile ^a   Beaudouin, Célia ^d  

^a université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBORAN SEA; CLIMATE INDEX; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE RECORD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SINGLE PARAMETER; TEMPERATE TREES; TIME SLICE; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION RESPONSE; WATER DEPTH; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP SEA; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RARE SPECIES; RECONSTRUCTION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER DEPTH; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CLIMATES; DRIVES; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANS; OXYGEN; PLANTS; SAMPLING; SEA WATER;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78951482074     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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