Morphometric analysis of pollen grains for paleoecological studies: Classification of Picea from eastern North America

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1459-1467

  Lindbladh, Matts ^a,b   O'Connor, Raymond ^a   Jacobson Jr , George L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis; Modern pollen grains; Picea glauca; Picea mariana; Picea rubens

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN;

NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFERALES; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 0036742045     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.89.9.1459     Document Type: Article

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