Holocene climate variability and environmental history at the Patagonian forest/steppe ecotone: Lago Mosquito (42°29'37.89"S, 71°24'14.57"W) and Laguna del Cóndor (42°20'47.22"S, 71°17'07.62"W)

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1297-1307

  Iglesias, Virginia ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^a   Bianchi, M Martha ^b   Villarosa, Gustavo ^b   Outes, Valeria ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CONICET CRUB UNCOMA ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Austrocedrus; charcoal analysis; fire history; Northern Patagonia climate; Southern Westerlies; vegetation history

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOTONE; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; REFUGIUM; STEPPE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY; WESTERLY; WIND DIRECTION;

ANDES; PATAGONIA;

EID: 84867676297     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611427330     Document Type: Article

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