Vegetation, land cover and land use changes of the last 200 years in the Eastern Ghats (southern India) inferred from pollen analysis of sediments from a rain-fed tank and remote sensing

Quaternary International

Volumn 325, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-104

  Anupama, Krishnamurthy ^a   Prasad, Srinivasan ^a   Reddy, C Sudhakar ^b  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Eastern ghats; Land cover and land use change; Late holocene; Pollen record; Southern india

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; GIS; HOLOCENE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL;

EASTERN GHATS; INDIA;

EID: 84896125316     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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