Vegetation responses to interglacial warming in the Arctic: Examples from Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1211-1219

  Lozhkin, A V ^a   Anderson, P M ^b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; TUNDRA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WARMING;

ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; ELGYGYTGYN LAKE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84880905369     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1211-2013     Document Type: Article

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