Productivity of Loessal Grasslands in the Kluane Lake Region, Yukon Territory, and the Beringian “Production Paradox”

• Main Authors: N. F. Laxton, C. R. Burn, C. A. S. Smith
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Kluane Lake; Slims River; Yukon; Arctic; toundra; Tundra; Beringia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.9928; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic49-2-129.pdf

ABSTRACT. The Beringian “Production Paradox ” is posed by abundant evidence that large ungulates populated unglaciated portions of northwestern North America and adjacent northeast Asia during the late Pleistocene, while botanical data from the same period suggest a poorly productive tundra environm...