Holocene variability of an Amazonian hyperdominant

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1370-1378

  Bush, Mark B ^a   McMichael, Crystal N H ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; climate change; forest enrichment; fossil charcoal; fossil pollen; human disturbance; hyperdominant tree; Iriartea deltoidea; palaeoecology; plant climate interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POLLEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TIMESCALE;

AMAZONIA;

IRIARTEA; IRIARTEA DELTOIDEA;

EID: 84973279023     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12600     Document Type: Article

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