Fire and human impact on the vegetation of the western Tamba Highlands, Kyoto, Japan during the late Holocene

Quaternary International

Volumn 254, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-11

  Sasaki, Naoko ^a   Takahara, Hikaru ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DOMINANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; RECONSTRUCTION; SECONDARY FOREST; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO;

CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; FAGUS; FAGUS CRENATA; POACEAE;

EID: 84857363997     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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