The influence of abrupt climate change on the ice-age vegetation of the Central American lowlands

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 497-509

  Correa Metrio, Alexander ^a,b   Bush, Mark B ^a   Hodell, David A ^c   Brenner, Mark ^d   Escobar, Jaime ^e   Guilderson, Tom ^f  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO   (Colombia)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central American lowlands; Glacial diversity; Heinrich events; Last Glacial Maximum; Pinus; Pinus savannas; Pleistocene vegetation change; Quercus; Vegetation history; Yucatan Peninsula

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; COOLING; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GENE FLOW; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

QUERCUS;

EID: 84857114755     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02618.x     Document Type: Article

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