Nile Delta vegetation response to Holocene climate variability

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 615-618

  Bernhardt, Christopher E ^a,b   Horton, Benjamin P ^b   Stanley, Jean Daniel ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPERACEAE; EGYPTIANS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN LAND USE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NILE DELTA; NILE DELTA , EGYPT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA LEVEL RISE; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES;

VEGETATION;

ARIDITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HEADWATER; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

CYPERACEAE;

EID: 84864319713     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33012.1     Document Type: Article

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