Long-term Arctic peatland dynamics, vegetation and climate history of the Pur-Taz region, western Siberia

Boreas

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-126

  Peteet, Dorothy ^a,b   Andreev, Andrei ^a,c   Bardeen, William ^b   Mistretta, Francesca ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARCTIC; PUR-TAZ; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0032446366     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1998.tb00872.x     Document Type: Article

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