50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 451, Issue , 2016, Pages 197-209

  Lim, Sophak ^a   Chase, Brian M ^a   Chevalier, Manuel ^a   Reimer, Paula J ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Late Quaternary; Namib Desert; Pollen; Rock hyrax middens; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOME; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UPWELLING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA;

PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; RESTIONACEAE;

EID: 84962662290     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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