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Research article
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23 Feb 2016
Research article |
| 23 Feb 2016
Holocene Asian monsoon evolution revealed by a pollen record from an alpine lake on the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China
Enlou Zhang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing
Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
210008, China
Yongbo Wang
College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal
University, Beijing 100048, China
Weiwei Sun
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing
Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
210008, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Ji Shen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing
Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
210008, China
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