Late Quaternary Zonation of Vegetation in the Eastern Grand Canyon
- 17 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4565), 1142-1145
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4565.1142
Abstract
Fossil assemblages from 53 packrat middens indicate which plant species were dominant during the last 24,000 years in the eastern Grand Canyon. Past vegetational patterns show associations that cannot be attributed to simple elevational displacement of the modern zones. A model emphasizing a latitudinal shift of climatic values is proposed.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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