Vegetation changes during the past 40,000 years in Central China from a long fossil record

Quaternary International

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-226

  Li, Jie ^a,b   Zheng, Zhuo ^a   Huang, Kangyou ^a   Yang, Shixiong ^a   Chase, Brian ^b,c   Valsecchi, Verushka ^b   Carré, Matthieu ^b   Cheddadi, Rachid ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; C3 PLANT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; DAJIUHU BASIN; HUBEI; SHENNONGJIA MOUNTAINS;

CONIFEROPHYTA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84884418150     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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