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Vegetational Reconstruction and Climatic Episodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. Raymond Wood
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Abstract

Data from United States General Land Office Surveys are commonly used to create vegetation models for the American Pioneer period. These models are then used as baselines for understanding past biotic change. It should be realized that many of these surveys were made near the end of a climatic episode (the Neo-Boreal or "Little Ice Age") when world temperatures were much lower than at the present time. These baselines therefore do not represent vegetational responses to a climatic regime like that of the present, and the vegetation models must be interpreted accordingly.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 206 - 208
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1976

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