A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-53

  Pregitzer, Kurt S ^a   Reed, David D ^a   Bornhorst, Theodore J ^b   Foster, David R ^c   Mroz, Glenn D ^a   Mclachlan, Jason S ^d   Laks, Peter E ^a   Stokke, Douglas D ^e   Martin, Patrick E ^a   Brown, Shannon E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried forest; Climate change; Holocene; Pleistocene; Pollen; Population processes; Spruce; Succession; Younger Dryas period

Indexed keywords

AGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; HOLOCENE; NORTH AMERICA; PICEA GLAUCA; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT; POLLEN; SEDIMENT; SIZE; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; STAND DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

PICEA;

EID: 0034098601     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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