Biotic Development of Quaternary Amazonia: A Palynological Perspective

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 335-345

  Behling, Hermann ^a   Bush, Mark ^b   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest, largest rainforest ecosystem on Earth; Amazonian diversity origin and climate change; Amazonian vegetation regional and global hydrological budgets and climate; Biotic development of Quaternary Amazonia palynological perspective; Early and Middle Miocene palynological record of Caquet drainage basin, Colombia resembling modern palynoflora; Ice age environment in Amazonia and Podocarpus in ice age Amazonia; Lago do Crispim pollen record from Amazon coastal areas; Post glacial Amazonia Amazon terra firme rainforests; Savannas north (llanos) and south (cerrado) of Amazon rainforest; South American Summer Monsoon (SASM) and South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886174829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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