Plant macrofossils associated with an early Holocene beaver dam in interior Alaska

Arctic

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 430-438

  Robinson, Simon ^a   Beaudoin, Alwynne B ^b   Froese, Duane G ^a   Doubt, Jennifer ^b   Clague, John J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaska; Beaver; Holocene; Paleoenvironment; Plant macrofossils; Post glacial vegetation; Typha latifolia

Indexed keywords

BERINGIA; BRYOPHYTE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAM; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSION; RODENT;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BETULA SP.; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CAREX; CASTOR CANADENSIS; DREPANOCLADUS ADUNCUS; ELEOCHARIS; NAJAS FLEXILIS; POTAMOGETON SP.; RUBUS; SCIRPUS; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; WARNSTORFIA;

EID: 38349105077     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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