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Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics /
The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Colección: | Blackwell quaternary geoscience series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, and fluctuations in the size of mountain glaciers and sandy deserts. Until recently it was thought that such changes were triggered by fluctuations in the distribution of polar ice cover. Now there is increasing recognition that the tropics themselves have. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781405182966 1405182962 1118336178 9781118336175 9781118336311 1118336313 9781118343258 1118343255 |