Holocene palaeoecological reconstruction of three boreal peatlands in the la Grande Rivire region, Qu©bec, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 459-476

  Beaulieu Audy, Véronique ^a   Garneau, Michelle ^a   Richard, Pierre J H ^b   Asnong, Hans ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autogenic and allogenic factors; Boreal peatlands; Canada.; Holocene climate; James Bay; Peatland development; Tyrrell Sea regression

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ARID REGION; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; BOREAL; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FEN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GRADUALISM; HYDROGRAPHY; MOSS; NEOGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER; WATERSHED; WETTING;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; JAMES BAY; LA GRANDE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 68549104267     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608101395     Document Type: Article

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