Palaeofires in Amazon: Interplay between land use change and palaeoclimatic events

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 415, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-151

  Cordeiro, Renato Campello ^a   Turcq, Bruno ^b   Moreira, Luciane Silva ^a   Rodrigues, Renato de Aragão Ribeiro ^a,c   Lamego Simões Filho, Francisco Fernando ^d   Martins, Gabriel Souza ^a   Santos, Alice Bosco ^a   Barbosa, Marcelo ^e   Guilles da Conceição, Marcela Cardoso ^a   Rodrigues, Rodrigo de Carvalho ^a   Evangelista, Heitor ^f   Moreira Turcq, Patricia ^g   Penido, Yvaga Poty ^a   Sifeddine, Abdelfettah ^a,b   Seoane, José Carlos Sícoli ^e  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^g INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazon; Charcoal; Climatic changes; Human impacts; Palaeofires

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS BURNING; BIOME; CHARCOAL; ECOTONE; FIRE HISTORY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION TYPE;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 84910030545     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.020     Document Type: Article

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