Reassessment of Holocene vegetation change on the upper Tibetan Plateau using the pollen-based REVEALS model

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-40

  Wang, Yongbo ^a,b   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERV model; Holocene; Pollen productivity; REVEALS model; Tibetan Plateau; Vegetation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; CYPERACEAE; KOBRESIA; POACEAE;

EID: 80054113493     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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