Contribution to early holocene vegetation and climate history of eastern orinoco llanos, venezuela, from a paleoecological record of a mauritia l.f. swamp;Contribuição para a história da vegetação e clima durante o holoceno temprano do llanos orientais do orinoco, venezuela, a partir de um registro paleoecológico de um pântano mauritia l.f

Acta Amazonica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 513-520

  Leal, Alejandra ^a   Perez, Tibisay ^b   Bilbao, Bibiana ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Dinámica de Comunidades y Procesos Ecológicos   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Early holocene; Early mid holocene dryness; Mauritia swamp; Orinoco llanos; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; MELASTOMATACEAE; POACEAE; SCHEFFLERA;

EID: 80054681350     PISSN: 00445967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0044-59672011000400009     Document Type: Article

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