A pollen-based biome reconstruction over the last 3.562 million years in the Far East Russian Arctic – New insights into climate– vegetation relationships at the regional scale

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2759-2775

  Tarasov, P E ^a   Andreev, A A ^b   Anderson, P M ^c   Lozhkin, A V ^d   Leipe, C ^a   Haltia, E ^e,f   Nowaczyk, N R ^e   Wennrich, V ^b   Brigham Grette, J ^g   Melles, M ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLD TOLERANCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT STRESS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; ELGYGYTGYN LAKE; RUSSIAN FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84890463524     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2759-2013     Document Type: Article

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