Vegetation response to climate change during the Last Interglacial-Last Glacial transition in the southern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Palynology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-206

  Jeffers, Darren ^a,b   Willis, Kathy J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cedrus libani; climate change; eastern Mediterranean; Last InterglacialGlacial transition

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST COVER; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BEKAA VALLEY; BEQAA; LEBANON;

CEDRUS LIBANI;

EID: 84911987123     PISSN: 01916122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2014.880958     Document Type: Article

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