An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1093-1106

  Walsh, Megan K ^a   Pearl, Christopher A ^b   Whitlock, Cathy ^c   Bartlein, Patrick J ^a   Worona, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONTROLS; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FIRE FREQUENCIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LOCAL CONTROL; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; POLLEN ANALYSIS; QUERCUS; RIPARIAN FORESTS; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILLAMETTE;

CHARCOAL; FORESTRY; LAKES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

CHARCOAL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIPARIAN FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

CHARCOAL; FIRES; FORESTRY; LAKES; LAND USE; PLANTS;

BEAVER LAKE [OREGON]; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ALNUS RUBRA; CORYLUS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS;

EID: 77950594818     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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