Modern pollen assemblages from cultivated rice fields and rice pollen morphology: Application to a study of ancient land use and agriculture in the Pearl River Delta, China

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1393-1404

  Yang, Shixiong ^a   Zheng, Zhuo ^a   Huang, Kangyou ^a   Zong, Yongqiang ^b   Wang, Jianhua ^a   Xu, Qinghai ^c   Rolett, Barry V ^d   Li, Jie ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; human activity; Oryza sativa; pollen analysis; rice paddy field; southeastern China

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS TREE; CULTIVATION; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MORPHOLOGY; PADDY FIELD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RICE; SOIL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84870039003     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612449761     Document Type: Article

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