Vegetation and climate history of northern Japan inferred from the 5500-year pollen record from the Oshima Peninsula, SW Hokkaido

Quaternary International

Volumn 290-291, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-163

  Leipe, Christian ^a   Kito, Norio ^b   Sakaguchi, Yumi ^b   Tarasov, Pavel E ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOSSIL RECORD; MIXED FOREST; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; OSHIMA PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); SEA OF JAPAN; TSUGARU STRAIT; TSUSHIMA CURRENT;

FAGUS;

EID: 84875491201     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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