Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 164, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 143-173

  Gelorini, Vanessa ^a   Verbeken, Annemieke ^a   van Geel, Bas ^b   Cocquyt, Christine ^c   Verschuren, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fungal spores; Non pollen palynomorphs (NPPs); Palaeoecology; Palaeolimnology; Taxonomy; Tropical Africa

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FERN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAND USE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MORPHOTYPE; MOSS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SPORE; TAXONOMY;

EAST AFRICA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 79952701452     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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