The response of a jack pine forest to late-Holocene climate variability in northwestern Wisconsin

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1049-1061

  Tweiten, Michael A ^a   Hotchkiss, Sara C ^a   Booth, Robert K ^b   Calcote, Randy R ^c   Lynch, Elizabeth A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate proxy; Drought; Fire; Late Holocene; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Multidecadal climate variability; Pinus banksiana; Pinus strobus; Sand plain; Testate amoebae; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; MORTALITY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROTOZOAN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONALITY; SUCCESSION; WATER TABLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 70350509197     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609340993     Document Type: Article

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