Past and present vegetation of the far northwest of Canada /

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Quaternary history of vegetation in the northern Yukon and adjacent Mackenzie Delta region.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ritchie, J. C. (James Cunningham), 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1984.
Colección:Heritage.
Temas:
From 2 million years ago
Paleobotany > Northwest Territories > Mackenzie River.
Paleobotany > Yukon.
Paleobotany > Quaternary.
Plants > Northwest Territories > Mackenzie River.
Plants > Yukon.
Botany > Yukon.
Botany > Northwest Territories.
Paléobotanique > Yukon.
Paléobotanique > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Mackenzie.
Botanique > Yukon.
Botanique > Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
Paliobotanique > Yukon > Quaternaire ricent.
Paliobotanique > Yukon > Cinozooque.
Paliobotanique > Territoires du Nord-Quest > Mackenzie, Vallie du fleuve > Quaternaire ricent.
Paliobotanique > Territoires du Nord-Quest > Mackenzie, Vallie du fleuve > Cinozooque.
Botanique > Territoires du Nord-Quest.
Paléobotanique > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Mackenzie, Fleuve.
Paléobotanique > Quaternaire.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Botany.
Paleobotany.
Plants.
Quaternary Geologic Period.
Vegetation
Geschichte
Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories > Mackenzie River.
Yukon.
Kanada > Nordwest
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE PHYSICAL SETTING; 1 Climate; 2 Geology; 3 Permafrost and periglacial features; 4 Physiographic regions; 3 VASCULAR PLANT FLORISTICS; 4 MODERN VEGETATION; 1 Beringian vegetation zones; 2 Present vegetation of Northwest Canada; 5 VEGETATION HISTORY; 1 Tertiary origins; 2 Early and middle Pleistocene; 3 Late Pleistocene and Holocene record; 6 PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; 1 The full- and late-glacial vegetation; 2 The early Holocene period; 3 The late Holocene alder rise and subsequent stability; 7 CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE TRENDS
  • 1 Ecological implications of the palaeobotanical record2 Topographic diversity and palaeoecology; 3 For the future; APPENDIXES; 1 A listing in taxonomic order of the species of vascular plants that have been recorded for the study area; 2 Tabular summaries of the vegetation composition of the main community types; 3 Field and laboratory methods; 4 A listing of the radiocarbon age determinations of samples from sites referred to in Chapter 5; PLATES; REFERENCES; INDEX

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