Holocene vegetation and historic grazing impacts at capitol reef national park reconstructed using packrat middens

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-326

  Cole, Kenneth L ^a,b   Henderson, Norman ^c   Shafer, David S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d US Department of Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossil pollen; Grazing impacts; Holocene vegetation history; Packrat middens; Presettlement vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030785538     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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