Variability within the 10-Year Pollen Rain of a Seasonal Neotropical Forest and Its Implications for Paleoenvironmental and Phenological Research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Haselhorst, Derek S ^a   Moreno, J Enrique ^b   Punyasena, Surangi W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PANAMA; PHENOLOGY; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POLLEN RAIN; POLLEN RAIN TRANSFER; SAMPLING; SEASONAL NEOTROPICAL FOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; UNDERSTOREY;

ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PANAMA; POLLEN; RAIN; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84872203744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053485     Document Type: Article

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