Holocene vegetation and climate history at Haligu on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Yunnan, SW China

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 841-866

  Song, Xiao Yan ^a,b   Yao, Yi Feng ^a   Wortley, A H ^c   Paudayal, K N ^d   Yang, Shao Hua ^e   Li, Cheng Sen ^a   Blackmore, S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^e INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE HISTORY; CONIFEROUS TREES; CORE SEDIMENTS; EVERGREEN BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; HOLOCENES; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; HUMID CLIMATES; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POLLEN DATA; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUERCUS; VEGETATION TYPE; YUNNAN , CHINA;

COOLING SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NEEDLES; SILICATE MINERALS; SNOW; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FERN; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYPSITHERMAL; NATURAL RESOURCE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SPORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; CLIMATES; COOLING SYSTEMS; MOUNTAINS; NEEDLES; PLANTS; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; YULONG SNOW MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

ABIES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONIFERALES; FILICOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; QUERCUS; TSUGA;

EID: 84864286501     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0364-6     Document Type: Article

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