Lateglacial and Holocene climate, disturbance and permafrost peatland dynamics on the Seward Peninsula, western Alaska

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-58

  Hunt, Stephanie ^a   Yu, Zicheng ^a   Jones, Miriam ^b,c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; B lling Aller d; Carbon cycle; Disturbance; Holocene; Holocene thermal maximum; Neoglacial cooling; Peatlands; Permafrost; Picea refugia; Seward Peninsula; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ALASKA; CARBON CYCLES; DISTURBANCE; HOLOCENES; PEAT LAND; PICEA REFUGIA; SEWARD PENINSULA; THERMAL MAXIMA; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PEAT; WETLANDS;

PERMAFROST;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST; REFUGIUM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALASKA; CARBON; COOLING; ECOSYSTEMS; PEAT; PERMAFROST; PICEA; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

ALASKA; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CHARA; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; LARIX; PICEA; POACEAE; POPULUS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84872585241     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.019     Document Type: Article

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