Deglacial and postglacial vegetation changes on the eastern slopes of the central Patagonian Andes (47°S)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-99

  Villa Martínez, Rodrigo ^a   Moreno, Patricio I ^b   Valenzuela, Marcela A ^b  

^a Centre for Quaternary Research Punta Arenas   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Central Patagonia; Last glacial termination; Nothofagus forests; Southern westerly winds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; DEGLACIAL; EXOTIC WEEDS; FIRE ACTIVITY; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; LAST GLACIAL; NOTHOFAGUS; PATAGONIA; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; PROGLACIAL LAKES; TIME-SCALES; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAKES; WIND;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHARCOAL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEGLACIATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; HERB; LAST GLACIAL; POSTGLACIAL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHRUB; SPORE; STEPPE; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION HISTORY; WESTERLY; WIND DIRECTION;

CHARCOAL; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GEOLOGY; LAKES; METEOROLOGY; PATAGONIA; WIND;

ANDES; PATAGONIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONIFEROPHYTA; NOTHOFAGUS; PILGERODENDRON; RUMEX; RUMEX ACETOSELLA;

EID: 84655170243     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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