Late-Holocene vegetation and fire history from Ferry Lake, northwestern Wisconsin, USA

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 495-504

  Lynch, Elizabeth A ^a   Calcote, Randy ^b   Hotchkiss, Sara ^c  

^a LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal analysis; Climate change; Fire history; Late Holocene; Palaeoecology; Pine barrens; Pollen; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY; WOODLAND;

FERRY LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

QUERCUS;

EID: 33745972896     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl945rp     Document Type: Article

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