Vegetation response to glacial-interglacial climate variability near Lake Malawi in the southern African tropics

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 303, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 81-92

  Beuning, Kristina R M ^a   Zimmerman, Kurt A ^a   Ivory, Sarah J ^a   Cohen, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

East Africa; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene; Pollen; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HUMID TROPICS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI;

BRACHYSTEGIA; ERICACEAE; PODOCARPUS; PTERIDOPHYTA; UAPACA;

EID: 79953146393     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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