Holocene changes in African vegetation: Tradeoff between climate and water availability

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 681-686

  Hely C ^a   Lezine A M ^b   Ballouche, A ^c   Cour, P ^c   Duzer, D ^c   Guinet, Ph ^c   Jahns, S ^c   Maley, J ^c   Mercuri, A M ^c   Pons, A ^c   Ritchie, J C ^c   Salzmann, U ^c   Schulz, E ^c   Van Campo, M ^c   Waller, M P ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c APD contributors ^*  (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84897389969     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-681-2014     Document Type: Article

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