Spatiotemporal patterns of tundra fires: Late-Quaternary charcoal records from Alaska

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4017-4027

  Chipman, M L ^a   Hudspith, V ^a,e   Higuera, P E ^b   Duffy, P A ^c   Kelly, R ^a,f   Oswald, W W ^d   Hu, F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c Neptune and Company Inc   (United States)

^d EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON CYCLE; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; FIRE; FIRE HISTORY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; ANAKTUVUK RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937053268     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-4017-2015     Document Type: Article

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