New spruce (Picea spp.) macrofossils from Yukon Territory: Implications for late Pleistocene refugia in Eastern Beringia

Arctic

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 391-400

  Zazula, G D ^a   Telka, A M ^b   Harington, C R ^c   Schweger, C E ^d   Mathewes, R W ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Paleotec Services   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beringia; Macrofossils; Paleoecology; Refugia; Spruce; Yukon Territory

Indexed keywords

BERINGIA; EVERGREEN TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLINATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 33846442031     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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