The Response of Vegetation on the Andean Flank in Western Amazonia to Pleistocene Climate Change

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1197947
• Publication Date: 2011-02-24T19:33:23Z
• Authors: Macarena L. Cárdenas; William D. Gosling; Sarah C. Sherlock; Imogen Poole; R. Toby Pennington; Patricia Mothes
• Keywords: Geologic Sediments; 0303 health sciences; Fossils; Altitude; Climate Change; Biodiversity; Volcanic Eruptions; Plants; 15. Life on land; Fires; Trees; 03 medical and health sciences; 13. Climate action; Pollen; Ecuador; Ecosystem

Pleistocene climate fluctuations caused major shifts in the altitudinal distribution of forest plant species.