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A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary

• HF-ID: HF1999-28
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Pregitzer, Kurt S.
  • Reed, David D.
  • Bornhorst, Theodore J.
  • Foster, David R.
  • Mroz, Glenn D.
  • McLachlan, Jason S.
  • Laks, Peter E.
  • Stokke, Douglas D.
  • Martin, Patrick E.
  • Brown, Shannon E.

• Associated Person:
  • Grimm, Eric C.

• Date: 1995-2018
• Location: Upper Peninsula (Michigan)
• Media: Paper and photographs
• Contents:
  • Articles, overhead transparencies, correspondence, notes, maps, 4 color photographs (4" x 6"), reprint. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: climate, off forest, old growth forests, paleoecology, succession
• Abstract:
  • Due to a unique set of circumstances, we were able to excavate an entire spruce (Picea) forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA, which was buried in the early Holocene.

• Related Items:
  • HFS 2000-28 Gribben Buried Forest Soils 1995
  • HFS 1996-26 Gribben Buried Forest, Spruce Cookies and Litter 1995
  • Publication: A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary
  • Neotoma Paleoecology Database: 39333 Site Details for Lake Gribben forest bed

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 12, drawer 5
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • 2018: Eric Grimm contacted D. R. Foster and other authors regarding his upload of Gribben forest bed plant macrofossil and radiocarbon dates to the Neotoma Paleoecology database.
  
  
  • During the 2017 Archive renovations, mice damaged the file folder. NO DATA WAS LOST OR DAMAGED. The file folder was replaced.