A record of late-quaternary moisture-balance change and vegetation response from the White Mountains, New Hampshire

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-248

  Shuman, Bryan ^a   Newby, Paige ^b   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^c   Tarbox, Alison ^b   Webb III, Thompson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Lake levels; New Hampshire; Vegetation change; White Mountains

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MOISTURE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST;

BETULA; CONIUM MACULATUM; FAGUS; PINUS STROBUS; TSUGA;

EID: 27844444258     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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