Origin of a park-forest vegetation mosaic in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

The vegetation of the montane and subalpine zones of the Rocky Mountains is a mosaic of conifer forests and large (1 ha to several square kilometers) treeless “parks” dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), grasses, and forbs. Three hypotheses for the origin of parks are proposed. The “permanent si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: E.A. Lynch
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Montana IoE Data Repository
Subjects:
vegetation mosaic
Wind River Range
Wyoming
Quaternary paleoecology
park
palynology
climate change
Lynch
Parkland
Wind River
Tundra
Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/MontanaIOE.12.6

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