Utility of surface pollen assemblages to delimit Eastern Eurasian steppe types.

Modern pollen records have been used to successfully distinguish between specific prairie types in North America. Whether the pollen records can be used to detect the occurrence of Eurasian steppe, or even to further delimit various steppe types was until now unclear. Here we characterized modern po...

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Main Authors: Feng Qin, Yu-Fei Wang, David K Ferguson, Wen-Li Chen, Ya-Meng Li, Zhe Cai, Qing Wang, Hong-Zhen Ma, Cheng-Sen Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4357446?pdf=render