Dynamics of subarctic wetland forests over the past 1500 years

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-391

  Payette, Serge ^a   Delwaide, Ann ^a  

^a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Climate change; Fire disturbance; Lake level; Little Ice Age; Moisture changes; Picea mariana; Subarctic; Subfossils; Submerged trees; Treeline; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FIRE; LAKE LEVEL; LATITUDE; PALEOECOLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC;

PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; RIPARIA;

EID: 4444288651     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4033     Document Type: Article

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