TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping eastern North American vegetation change of the past 18 ka
T2 - no-analogs and the future
AU - Overpeck, J. T.
AU - Webb, R. S.
AU - Webb, T.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - The method of modern analogs and an extensive data base of modern and fossil pollen data were used to generate a new series of paleovegetation maps for E North America spanning the past 18 ka. The maps illustrate the continuous nature of climate-induced vegetation change and the development, after c10ka, of modern regional vegetation patterns. Before the Holocene, vegetation biomes without modern analogs were widespread in response to climate conditions without modern analogs and, to a lesser extent, to the rapidity of climate change over the last-glacial-interglacial transition. This geological perspective suggests that possible future climate changes could force similarly complex changes in natural vegetation, including the development of biomes without modern analogs. -Authors
AB - The method of modern analogs and an extensive data base of modern and fossil pollen data were used to generate a new series of paleovegetation maps for E North America spanning the past 18 ka. The maps illustrate the continuous nature of climate-induced vegetation change and the development, after c10ka, of modern regional vegetation patterns. Before the Holocene, vegetation biomes without modern analogs were widespread in response to climate conditions without modern analogs and, to a lesser extent, to the rapidity of climate change over the last-glacial-interglacial transition. This geological perspective suggests that possible future climate changes could force similarly complex changes in natural vegetation, including the development of biomes without modern analogs. -Authors
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U2 - 10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<1071:MENAVC>2.3.CO;2
DO - 10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<1071:MENAVC>2.3.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879889680
VL - 20
SP - 1071
EP - 1074
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
SN - 0091-7613
IS - 12
ER -