Climate and vegetation of the interior lowlands of southern Baffin Island: Long-term stability at the low arctic limit

Arctic

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-177

  Jacobs, J D ^a   Headley, A N ^b   Maus, L A ^c   Mode, W N ^d   Simms, E L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Arctic College   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic climate station; Baffin Island; Bioclimate; Climate change; Low arctic vegetation; Nettilling Lake; Palynology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIOCLIMATIC ZONE; CLIMATIC HISTORY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

AVES; BETULA; BETULA GLANDULOSA; BETULACEAE; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0030767975     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1099     Document Type: Article

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