Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history across an elevational gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2520-2533

  Power, M J ^a   Whitlock, C ^b   Bartlein, P J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Charcoal; Holocene climate; Pollen; Rocky mountains

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS-BURNING; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE HISTORY; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE REGIMES; HIGH AMPLITUDES; HIGH ELEVATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LATEGLACIAL; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; MIXED FORESTS; MONTANA; NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; PINUS ALBICAULIS; POLLEN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TREE LINE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING SYSTEMS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE FORCING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; COOLING; ELEVATION; FIRE HISTORY; GROWING SEASON; HOLOCENE; MIXED FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POLLEN; POSTGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; LARIX; PICEA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS MONTICOLA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 80051873599     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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