Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba Basin, Bolivia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-68

  Williams, Joseph J ^a   Gosling, William D ^a   Coe, Angela L ^a   Brooks, Stephen J ^b   Gulliver, Pauline ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charcoal; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fire; Fossil pollen; Holocene; Human impact; Inca; Polylepis; Sporormiella; Tiwanaku

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL POLLENS; HOLOCENES; HUMAN IMPACT; INCA; POLYLEPIS; SPORORMIELLA; TIWANAKU;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHARCOAL; FORESTRY; LAKES; MOISTURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; ROADS AND STREETS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHARCOAL; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

BOLIVIA; COCHABAMBA [BOLIVIA];

FUNGI; POLYLEPIS; PREUSSIA (ASCOMYCETE);

EID: 79959220234     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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