Extreme fires under warmer and drier conditions inferred from sedimentary charcoal morphotypes from Opatcho Lake, central British Columbia, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 835-846

  Enache, Mihaela D ^a   Cumming, Brian F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Canada; Charcoal morphotypes; Climate; Diatoms; Fire index; Holocene; Opatcho Lake; Total charcoal

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PREDICTION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; WARMING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; OPATCHO LAKE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 70249132592     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609337357     Document Type: Article

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