A 14,300-year-long record of fire-vegetation-climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington

Quaternary Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-264

  Walsh, Megan K ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^b   Bartlein, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history; Holocene; Late glacial; Lower Columbia River Valley; Macroscopic charcoal; Pollen; Washington

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SAVANNA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BATTLE GROUND LAKE; COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS; THUJA; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 50449095073     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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