The Effect of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Pollen-Vegetation Relationships in the American Midwest
Ellen Ruth Kujawa, Simon J. Goring, Andria Dawson, Randy Calcote, Eric Grimm, Sara Hotchkiss, Elizabeth A. Lynch, Jason McLachlan, Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, Charles Umbanhowar, John W. Williams
This paper evaluates how changes in land cover due to Euro-American settlement altered pollen-vegetation relationships in the American Midwest, finding significant shifts in these relationships for several tree genera.
bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2016Ecology