Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history of the yellowstone-lamar and central plateau provinces, Yellowstone National Park

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 10-28

  Millspaugh, Sarah H ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^a   Bartlein, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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