Vegetation, climate and fire in the eastern Andes (Bolivia) during the last 18,000years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 115-126

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

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Fossil charcoal; Fossil pollen; Holocene dry event (HDE); Polylepis woodland; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; MARSH; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESCRIBED BURNING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA]; YUNGAS;

ALNUS; POLYLEPIS;

EID: 82255183097     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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