Early human occupation and land use changes near the boundary of the Orinoco and the Amazon basins (SE Venezuela): Palynological evidence from El Paují record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 413-426

  Montoya, Encarni ^a,b   Rull, Valentí ^a   Nogué, Sandra ^c  

^a INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforests; Ecological succession; Fire; Gran Sabana; Indigenous land management; Savanna forest boundary

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; POLLEN; PTERIDOPHYTE; RAINFOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; SAVANNA; SPORE; SUCCESSION; TRANSITION ZONE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AMAZON BASIN; BOLIVAR [VENEZUELA]; EL PAUJI; GRAN SABANA; ORINOCO RIVER; VENEZUELA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 80053132395     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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