Abstract
The late-glacial logistic decline of spruce (Picea) populations (the intrinsic growth rate,r in yr−1=−0.0015) was progressively delayed toward cooler sites in Japan; spruce populations expanded asymptotically (r=0.0040−0.0045) in Sakhalin early in the Holocene. Such a time-transgressive range shift in spruce distribution, covering a wide latitudinal range (ca. 35–50°N), implies that the regional temperature rise was not instantaneous, but was rapid, being 0.0015–0.0025 C yr−1 from 13,000 to 10,000 years B.P. Spruce populations increased in response to Neoglacial cooling only at the margin of its distribution (r=0.0036), but then declined logistically 1,000 years B.P. (r=−0.0022).
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Tsukasa, M. Late-quaternary spruce decline and rise in Japan and Sakhalin. Bot Mag Tokyo 96, 127–133 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02491098
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