A 45kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 307, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 177-192

  Whitney, Bronwen S ^a   Mayle, Francis E ^a   Punyasena, Surangi W ^b   Fitzpatrick, Katharine A ^a   Burn, Michael J ^a   Guillen, René ^c   Chavez, Ezequiel ^d   Mann, David ^e   Pennington, R Toby ^e   Metcalfe, Sarah E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado 'Kaa iya del Gran Chaco' ^*  (Bolivia)

^d Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^e ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; Palaeoclimate; Pollen; Tropical South America

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; DRY FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SOUTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79960384618     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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