Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1853-1862

  Aleman, Julie C ^a,b,c,d   Blarquez, Olivier ^e   Bentaleb, Ilham ^d   Bonté, Philippe ^f   Brossier, Benoit ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^b   Gond, Valéry ^c   Gourlet Fleury, Sylvie ^c   Kpolita, Arnaud ^g   Lefèvre, Irène ^f   Oslisly, Richard ^h   Power, Mitchell J ⁱ   Yongo, Olga ^g   Bremond, Laurent ^b   Favier, Charly ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f DIF   (France)

^g Universite de Bangui   (Central African Republic)

^h Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD   (Gabon)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; Central African Republic; charcoal morphology; charcoal taphonomy; forest; lake; methodology; paleoecology; savanna; sedimentary charcoal

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; CHARCOAL; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; GRASS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAND COVER; PALEOECOLOGY; PASTURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; TAPHONOMY;

AFRICA;

EID: 84888602199     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613508159     Document Type: Article

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