Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: A new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-80

  Gill, Jacquelyn L ^a   Williams, John W ^a   Jackson, Stephen T ^b   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^c   Schellinger, Grace C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Late glacial; Megafauna; No analog communities; Ohio; Pleistocene extinctions; Pollen; Sporormiella; X ray fluorescent spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

LATE-GLACIAL; MEGAFAUNA; OHIO; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; SPORORMIELLA; X-RAY FLUORESCENT SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTINCTION; FUNGUS; HERBIVORY; INSOLATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LATE GLACIAL; LITTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

INDIANA; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; OHIO; SILVER LAKE [OHIO]; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPROPHILOUS; FUNGI; PREUSSIA (ASCOMYCETE);

EID: 84862785833     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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