The response of vegetation on the Andean Flank in Western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6020, 2011, Pages 1055-1058

  Cárdenas, Macarena L ^a   Gosling, William D ^a   Sherlock, Sarah C ^a   Poole, Imogen ^b   Pennington, R Toby ^c   Mothes, Patricia ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Tropical Biology Group   (United Kingdom)

^d ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION COVER; VOLCANIC ASH;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFER; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PODOCARPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FIRES; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PLANTS; POLLEN; TREES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR;

PODOCARPUS;

EID: 79952044784     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197947     Document Type: Article

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