Mauritius since the last glacial: Environmental and climatic reconstruction of the last 38 000 years from Kanaka Crater

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-168

  Van Der Plas, Geert W ^a   De Boer, Erik J ^a   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^a   Vincent Florens, F B ^b   Baider, Claudia ^c   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^c Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute   (Mauritius)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indian Ocean Dipole; Kanaka Crater; Mauritius; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRATER; DISPLACEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROFOSSIL; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TAXONOMY;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

ERICA; KANAKA; PANDANUS; PHILIPPIA;

EID: 84860413109     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1526     Document Type: Article

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