Holocene climatic reconstructions from the fossil pollen record at Qigai Nuur in the southern Mongolian Plateau

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1391-1402

  Sun, Aizhi ^a   Feng, Zhaodong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian summer monsoon; Holocene; Mongolian Plateau; palaeoclimate; pollen; vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOMINANCE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; STEPPE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84883627958     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613489581     Document Type: Article

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