Vegetation and climate in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes since 210 ka: New insights from marine and terrestrial pollen records from New Zealand

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-98

  Ryan, M T ^a   Dunbar, G B ^a   Vandergoes, M J ^b   Neil, H L ^c   Hannah, M J ^a   Newnham, R M ^a   Bostock, H ^c   Alloway, B V ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Late Quaternary; Marine palynology; Marine terrestrial correlation; New Zealand; Nothofagus " beech gap"; Southern Hemisphere; Westland

Indexed keywords

LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE PALYNOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NOTHOFAGUS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

VEGETATION;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FROST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE COVER; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHRUB; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEPHRA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CLIMATES; CORRELATION; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; LATITUDE; NEW ZEALAND; PLANTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ISLAND; TASMAN SEA;

DACRYDIUM CUPRESSINUM; EUTHYNNUS AFFINIS; FAGUS; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 84863514372     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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