Modern analogs in quaternary paleoecology: Here today, gone yesterday, gone tomorrow?

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2004, Pages 495-537

  Jackson, Stephen T ^a   Williams, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Multivariate analysis; Plant macrofossils; Pollen; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BIOTIC RESPONSES; PALEOCLIMATIC INFERENCES; PALEOECOLOGY;

EARTH SCIENCES;

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 3042660317     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120435     Document Type: Review

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