Developing an approach for using the soil phytolith record to infer vegetation and disturbance regime changes over the past 200 years

Quaternary International

Volumn 193, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 90-98

  Morris, Lesley R ^a   West, Neil E ^a   Baker, Fred A ^a   Van Miegroet, Helga ^a   Ryel, Ronald J ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOLITH; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57049139942     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.040     Document Type: Article

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