Late Quaternary Vegetation of Central Appalachia and the New Jersey Coastal Plain

• Published in: Ecological Monographs
• Main Author: Watts, W. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1979
• Subjects: Rugosa; Tamarack; Dwarf birch; Ice Sheet; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1942471; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1942471; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1942471; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1942471; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1942471

Pollen and plant macrofossil studies at 11 sites in New Jersey, southern and eastern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia, USA reveal the character of the stable vegetation of the unglaciated eastern United States while the Wisconsin ice sheet was still at its outer limit. Grass—dominated tundr...