Vegetation changes and associated climate variations during the past ~38,000 years reconstructed from the Shaamar eolian-paleosol section, northern Mongolia

Quaternary International

Volumn 311, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Ma, Yuzhen ^a   Liu, Kam biu ^b   Feng, Zhaodong ^c   Meng, Hongwei ^a   Sang, Yanli ^c   Wang, Wei ^d   Zhang, Hucai ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FOREST-STEPPE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

ARTEMISIA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SIBIRICA; POACEAE;

EID: 84884819490     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.037     Document Type: Article

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