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vegetation history

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  • [Xiaoqiang Li] Vegetation history is a valuable tool to assist understanding of environmental changes, ecological\ \ restoration and human impact on the environment. This study discusses the pollen analysis of the\ \ Yaoxian section on the southern margin of the Loess Plateau in China. Based on the pollen diagram,\ \ the vegetation of Yaoxian shows four episodes of change, i.e. from steppe to humid-grassland, to\ \ steppe, to humid-grassland, and then to grassland, over the last 12 000 years...

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa1088

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