Variations in spruce (Picea sp.) distribution in the Chinese Loess Plateau and surrounding areas during the Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 687-696

  Zhou, Xinying ^a   Li, Xiaoqiang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; Holocene; human impact; Loess Plateau; pollen; spruce

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DESERT; DIAGRAM; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

PICEA;

EID: 84861826713     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400195     Document Type: Article

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