Vegetation, climate and fire-dynamics in East Africa inferred from the Maundi crater pollen record from Mt Kilimanjaro during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Schüler, Lisa ^a   Hemp, Andreas ^b   Zech, Wolfgang ^b   Behling, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Climate change; Kilimanjaro; Late Quaternary; Pollen; Tanzania; Vegetation zones

Indexed keywords

KILIMANJARO; LATE QUATERNARY; POLLEN; TANZANIA; VEGETATION ZONES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ESSENTIAL OILS; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRASS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; REFUGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATES; EAST AFRICA; FOREST FIRES; GEOLOGY; PLANTS; POLLEN; SEDIMENTS; VOLATILE OIL; VOLCANISM;

EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS; KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGA)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

ALCHEMILLA; ARALIACEAE; ASTERACEAE; FILICOPHYTA; HAGENIA; ILEX; MORACEAE; MYRSINE; PIPERACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 84858162677     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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