Pleistocene graminoid-dominated ecosystems in the Arctic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2906-2929

  Blinnikov, Mikhail S ^a   Gaglioti, Benjamin V ^b   Walker, Donald A ^c   Wooller, Matthew J ^b   Zazula, Grant D ^d  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Yukon Palaeontology Program   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Graminoid vegetation; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; COLD CLIMATE; FIRE REGIMES; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROUND SQUIRRELS; ICE SHEET; LOCAL SCALE; MACROFOSSILS; MULTIPLE PROXIES; NORTH AMERICAN; PALEOCLIMATES; PLANT CUTICLES; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE; STABLE ISOTOPES; VEGETATION TYPE;

ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOME; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLORISTICS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; ICE SHEET; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STEPPE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BERING ISLAND; KAMCHATKA; KOMANDORSKI ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; POACEAE; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 80052950517     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.002     Document Type: Review

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