Late-Quaternary vegetation dynamics in north America: Scaling from taxa to biomes

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-334

  Williams, John W ^a,d   Shuman, Bryan N ^b,d   Webb III, Thompson ^c   Bartlein, Patrick J ^b   Leduc, Phillip L ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome maps; Biome reconstruction; Fossil pollen data; North America; Paleoecology; Plant functional types; Pollen based; Quaternary; Vegetation dynamics; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

NORTH AMERICA;

ALNUS; BETULA; BETULACEAE; CARPINUS; CYPERACEAE; FAGUS; FRAXINUS; OSTRYA; PICEA; TSUGA;

EID: 3843107544     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-4045     Document Type: Review

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