Rethinking the spread of agriculture to the Tibetan Plateau

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1498-1510

  d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; barley; ecological niche modeling; growing degree days; millet; pastoralism; Tibetan Plateau; wheat

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BARLEY; FARMING SYSTEM; FROST; HOLOCENE; LIFESTYLE; MILLET; NICHE OVERLAP; PALEOCLIMATE; PASTORALISM; PREHISTORIC; WHEAT;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84939511638     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615585835     Document Type: Article

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