Late quaternary vegetation history of Sulphur Lake, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada

Arctic

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-35

  Lacourse, T ^a,b   Gajewski, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Pollen analysis; Quaternary paleoecology; Southwest Yukon; Spruce migration; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CANADA; SULPHUR LAKE; YUKON TERRITORY;

ALNUS CRISPA; ARTEMISIA; BETULACEAE; JUNIPERUS; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS;

EID: 0034012765     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic831     Document Type: Article

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