Applying plant functional types to construct biome maps from eastern North American pollen data: Comparisons with model results

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 607-627

  Williams, John W ^a   Summers, Robert L ^a   Webb III, Thompson ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031903104     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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