Origin of a park-forest vegetation mosaic in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1320-1338

  Lynch, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LORAS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Palynology; Park; Quaternary paleoecology; Vegetation mosaic; Wind River Range; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; PALEOECOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

ABIES; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; POACEAE;

EID: 0031870415     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1320:OOAPFV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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