Human used upper montane ecosystem in the Horton Plains, central Sri Lanka - a link to Lateglacial and early Holocene climate and environmental changes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-42

  Premathilake, Rathnasiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Climate; Horton Plains; Pollen; Rice and hunter gatherers

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; BIOMASS-BURNING; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; HORTON PLAINS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATEGLACIAL; LOW LATITUDES; MACROFOSSILS; MONSOON RAINS; MONTANE ECOSYSTEMS; POLLEN; POLLEN GRAINS; RICE AND HUNTER-GATHERERS; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; RAIN;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONTANE FOREST; MOSS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPORE;

HORTON PLAINS NATIONAL PARK; SRI LANKA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYZA; ORYZA NIVARA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84864755842     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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