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Late-tertiary and quaternary palaeoenvironments

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Vegetation history

Part of the book series: Handbook of vegetation science ((HAVS,volume 7))

Abstract

Climatic variations, in both time and space, are the principal source of variability in the environment of plants. Climatic changes therefore provide a context for viewing and interpreting many of the vegetational variations recorded by paleoecological data. Climate variations occur at all temporal and spatial scales. At one end of the spectrum they include interannual variations at a particular place that are related to variations in atmospheric circulation, and at the opposite end, they include the very long period (> 108 yr) variations at the global scale that are related to the evolution of the atmosphere and lithosphere. The aim of this chapter is to describe the climate system and the controls of its variations, and to examine those timescales of climatic variations that are of relevance to vegetation history.

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Bartlein, P.J. (1988). Late-tertiary and quaternary palaeoenvironments. In: Huntley, B., Webb, T. (eds) Vegetation history. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3081-0_5

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