Fire and vegetation shifts in the Americas at the vanguard of Paleoindian migration

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 269-272

  Pinter, Nicholas ^a   Fiedel, Stuart ^b   Keeley, Jon E ^c,d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louis Berger Group   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Anthropogenic effects; Climate; Climate change; Fire; Fire regime; Megafauna; Vegetation; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; CLIMATE; FIRE REGIME; MEGAFAUNA; VEGETATION CHANGE;

FIRES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POSTGLACIAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79151475703     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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