Late-Holocene successional dynamics in a transitional forest of west-central Mexico

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-153

  Figueroa Rangel, Blanca L ^a   Willis, Kathy J ^b,c   Olvera Vargas, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; cloud forest; cyclic succession; fire; human disturbance; ordination

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD FOREST; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HERB; HOLOCENE; LEGUME; LOGGING (TIMBER); LONGEVITY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICROFOSSIL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL EROSION; SUCCESSION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ACACIA; ASTERACEAE; CARPINUS; PLANTAGO; POACEAE; QUERCUS; ZEA;

EID: 84855379294     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611414929     Document Type: Article

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