Vegetation context and climatic limits of the Early Pleistocene hominin dispersal in Europe

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1448-1463

  Leroy, S A G ^a   Arpe, K ^a,b   Mikolajewicz, U ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC SIMULATION; COLONISATION; FOREST COVER; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HOMININS; ICE SHEET; IN-SITU; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIALS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OPEN PHASE; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION; SEASONALITY; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOMINID; ICE SHEET; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; REFUGIUM; STEPPE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EUROPE; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 79957640440     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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