Vegetation history of the Río Manso Superior catchment area, Northern Patagonia (Argentina), since the last deglaciation

• Published in: Holocene (Sevenoaks) Vol. 22; no. 11; pp. 1283 - 1295
• Main Authors: Bianchi, María Martha, Ariztegui, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2012; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: altitude; Andes region; Argentina; Catchment areas; Catchment basins; Chile; climate; Climate and vegetation; Climate science; Climate variability; Climatic variability; cold; Deglaciation; Feeding; Forests; glaciation; Glaciers; Historical account; Holocene; Holocene epoch; landscapes; Marine sediment cores; Mountain glaciers; Nothofagus; Oceans; Pacific Ocean; Paleoceanography; paleoecology; Pollen; sediments; shrublands; Statistical analysis; Steppes; Topography; Vegetation; Vegetation changes; Watersheds; Patagonia; IE, Pacific; PSW, Argentina, Patagonia; ISE, Chile; Andes region; Argentina; Pacific Ocean; Chile; vegetation history; Argentina; Lateglacial; pollen analysis; Holocene; Patagonia

In Northern Patagonia, the long-term vegetation–climate relationships that gave shape to southern South American forests have been the subject of extensive investigations in the Andean regions of Argentina and Chile for about a century. The Río Manso Superior originates in one of the tongues of the...