A 4000-year record of woodland vegetation from Wind River Canyon, central Wyoming

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-413

  Jackson, Stephen T ^a   Lyford, Mark E ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Wyoming; Juniper woodlands; Late Holocene; Natural invasions; Vegetation history; Woodrat middens

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; JUNIPERUS SCOPULORUM;

EID: 0036807931     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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