Rapid and widespread vegetation responses to past climate change in the North Atlantic region

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 971-974

  Williams, John W ^a   Post, David M ^a   Cwynar, Les C ^b   Lotter, André F ^c   Levesque, André J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate effects; Pollen; Quaternary; Vegetation; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PERTURBATIONS; MIGRATION DISTANCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036860637     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0971:RAWVRT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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