Effects of sea-level rise and climatic changes on mangroves from southwestern littoral of Puerto Rico during the middle and late Holocene

Catena

Volumn 143, Issue , 2016, Pages 187-200

  Cohen, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa ^a   Lara, Rubén José ^b   Cuevas, Elvira ^c   Oliveras, Eneilis Mulero ^c   Da Silveira Sternberg, Leonel ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

C N; Carbon and nitrogen isotopes; Climatic changes; Palynology; Puerto Rico; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL ZONE; CORE ANALYSIS; DRY FOREST; DUNE; HOLOCENE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSALINITY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

GUANICA; PUERTO RICO;

RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84963785296     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.03.041     Document Type: Article

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