Last glacial vegetation reconstructions in the extreme-continental eastern Asia: Potentials of pollen and n-alkane biomarker analyses

Quaternary International

Volumn 290-291, Issue , 2013, Pages 253-263

  Tarasov, Pavel E ^a   Müller, Stefanie ^a   Zech, Michael ^b   Andreeva, Darima ^c   Diekmann, Bernhard ^d   Leipe, Christian ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EXTREME EVENT; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; MICROHABITAT; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER; WOODY PLANT;

LAKE BILLYAKH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA; VERKHOYANSK MOUNTAINS;

CONIFERALES; LARIX;

EID: 84875506892     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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