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Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin

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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

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Data from palynology, taxonomy, and isotopic analyses, allied to climate models, reveal the complexity of the history of Amazon ecosystems. Evidence from these records suggests that Pleistocene climatic change was neither uniform nor synchronous across the basin, but that its effects were pervasive.

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Bush, M.B., Gosling, W.D., Colinvaux, P.A. (2011). Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin. In: Bush, M., Flenley, J., Gosling, W. (eds) Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05383-2_3

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