Vegetation response to Holocene climate change in East Asian monsoon-margin region

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Zhao, Yan ^a   Yu, Zicheng ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; East Asian monsoon; Fossil pollen; Holocene; Spatial complexity; Vegetation response

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA;

EID: 84861698412     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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