Holocene pollen records from the central Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska: Testing the role of substrate in the response of tundra to climate change

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1034-1048

  Oswald, W Wyatt ^a,d   Brubaker, Linda B ^a   Hu, Feng Sheng ^b   Kling, George W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; North Slope; Palaeoecology; Palynology; Toolik Lake

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; SOIL TEXTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TUNDRA;

NORTH SLOPE; RED GREEN LAKE; UPPER CAPSULE LAKE;

BRYIDAE; EQUISETUM; LYCOPODIUM; LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM; POLYPODIACEAE; ROSACEAE; RUBUS; RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS; THALICTRUM;

EID: 0348011473     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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