Holocene dynamics of treeline forests in the Sierra Nevada

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1199-1210

  Lloyd, Andrea H ^a,b   Graumlich, Lisa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendrochronology; Foxtail pine; Holocene; Paleoclimate; Sierra Nevada; Stand dynamics; Subalpine forests; Treeline

Indexed keywords

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; PINUS BALFOURIANA;

CLIMATIC CHANGE; MONTANE FOREST; TREE LINE;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0030613887     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1199:HDOTFI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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