Palaeoenvironmental changes since Pleistocene-Holocene transition: Pollen analysis from a wetland in southwestern Patagonia (Argentina)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 103-110

  Bamonte, Florencia Paula ^a,b   Mancini, María Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Forest steppe ecotone; Holocene; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Pleistocene Holocene transition; Pollen analysis; Southern Patagonia

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ECOTONE; FOSSIL RECORD; HERB; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SHRUB; STEPPE;

PATAGONIA;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; EPHEDRA; POACEAE;

EID: 79954694965     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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