Possible linkages of palaeofires in southeast Amazonia to a changing climate since the Last Glacial Maximum

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 279-292

  Hermanowski, Barbara ^a   Da Costa, Marcondes Lima ^b   Behling, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian forest and savanna; Climate change; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Palaeofire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871983     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: 16176278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0472-0     Document Type: Article

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