Rapid succession of plant associations on the small ocean island of Mauritius at the onset of the Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-125

  De Boer, Erik J ^a   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^a   Vincent Florens, F B ^b   Baider, Cláudia ^c   Engels, Stefan ^a   Dakos, Vasilis ^d   Blaauw, Maarten ^e   Bennett, K D ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^c Mauritius Herbarium   (Mauritius)

^d Integrative Ecology Group   (Spain)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indian Ocean; Island ecology; Late Quaternary; Pollen record; Regime shift; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

INDIAN OCEAN; LATE QUATERNARY; POLLEN RECORD; REGIME SHIFT; SPECIES TURNOVER;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRATER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; SUCCESSION; TURNOVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

EID: 84875239238     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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