Response of arboreal pollen abundance to late-Holocene drought events in the Upper Midwest, USA

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 531-539

  Minckley, Thomas A ^a   Booth, Robert K ^b   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arboreal pollen; drought; high resolution; hydroclimate; late Holocene; Michigan; ombrotrophic bogs; pollen climate relationships; testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LONGEVITY; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

BETULA; FAGUS; QUERCUS; TSUGA;

EID: 84859360099     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611427334     Document Type: Article

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