Morphological and vegetation changes on tidal flats of the Amazon Coast during the last 5000 cal. yr BP

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 528-543

  Guimarães, José Tasso Felix ^a,b   Cohen, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa ^b   França, Marlon Carlos ^c   Pessenda, Luiz Carlos Ruiz ^c   Behling, Hermann ^d  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA)   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazonia; C and N isotopes; climate changes; Holocene; palynology; sedimentology

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HERB; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALYNOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84875044229     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612463097     Document Type: Article

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