Early Holocene vegetation, human activity and climate from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Quaternary International

Volumn 249, Issue , 2012, Pages 105-119

  Hunt, C O ^a   Premathilake, R ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RAINFALL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK;

EID: 84855940700     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.027     Document Type: Article

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