Late Wisconsin environments of the Bering Land Bridge

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 136, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 293-308

  Elias, Scott A ^a   Short, Susan K ^a   Birks, Hilary H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Beringia; Insects; Paleoecology; Palynology; Plant macrofossils

Indexed keywords

BERING LAND RIDGE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY; WISCONSINAN;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031435308     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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