Call number:
PIK N 630-13-0084
;
AWI Bio-22-20909
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XII, 178 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
0-521-30868-2
,
0-521-54409-2
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Terms and abbreviations
2 The biogeographlcal setting
Geology, physiography, and surface materials
The structural framework
Pleistocene geology
Bioclimates
Arctic and its three subzones
Subarctic zone
Boreal zone
Eastern temperate zone
Grassland zone
Pacific and Cordilleran zones
3 Autecology and pollen representation
Introduction
Transcontinental, primarily boreal taxa
Eastern, primarily temperate taxa
Pacific-Cordilleran taxa
Arctic taxa
Modern regional pollen spectra
The Western Interior
The eastern plains transect
The Pacific-Cordilleran transect
General comments on the modern pollen spectra
4 Full-glacial refugla
The southern refugia
Pacific-Cordilleran refugia
Interior plains and eastern region
The Beringian refugia
5 Eastern Canada-fossil record and reconstruction
Introduction
The late glacial - 12,700 to 10,000 yr BP
Southern Quebec and New Brunswick
Maritime Canada
The Great Lakes Basin
Vegetation reconstruction
The Holocene - 10,000 yr BP to the present
Southern Quebec and New Brunswick
The Maritimes, Labrador, and Northern Quebec
The Great Lakes
Vegetation reconstruction
Boreal region
6 The Western Interior
Sites near the forest-grassland transition
Sites within the modern boreal forest
Sites near the modern forest-tundra boundary
7 Pacific-Cordilleran region
Southern Pacific zone
Southern Cordilleran zone
Northern Pacific zone
Northern Cordilleran zone
8 Vegetation reconstruction and palaeoenvironments
Introduction
Origins and history
Eastern temperate forests
Boreal forest
Grasslands and parklands
Pacific-Cordilleran complex
Tundra (arctic)
Palaeoenvironmental controls Climate
The Milankovitch model
Full-glacial conditions
Late-glacial and Holocene
Fire
Pathogens
Paludification
Problems for the future
Climate disequilibrium
Spatial resolution
Pollen source area
Concluding comments
Appendix
References
Index
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
PIK Library
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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