Fire and vegetation history from the coastal rain forest of the western Oregon coast range

Quaternary Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-225

  Long, Colin J ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history; Milliennial scale climate change; Pacific Northwest; Paleoecology; Pollen records

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

COAST RANGE; OREGON; TAYLOR LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ALNUS RUBRA; BETULACEAE; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 0036870803     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2002.2378     Document Type: Article

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