Application and limitations of the Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in arid and semi-arid China

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1385-1392

  Zhao, Yan ^a,b   Liu, Hongyan ^c   Li, Furong ^b   Huang, Xiaozhong ^b   Sun, Jinghui ^b   Zhao, Wenwei ^b   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^d   Tang, Yu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

A C ratio; climate variables; dryland; vegetation types

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; HERB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE;

CHINA;

EID: 84870013764     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612449762     Document Type: Review

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