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• Daubenmire, R.F. (1936) The "Big Woods" of Minnesota: its structure, and relation to climate, fire, and soils. Ecological Monographs, 6, 233-268.
  
• Geiss, C.E., Banerjee, S.K., Camill, P., & Umbanhowar Jr., C.E. (2004) Sediment-Magnetic Signature of Land-use and Drought as Recorded in lake Sediment from South-Central Minnesota, U.S.A. Quaternary Research, 62, 117-125.
  
• Geiss, C.E., Umbanhowar, C.E.J., Camill, P., & Banerjee, S.K. (2003) Sediment magnetic properties reveal Holocene climate change along the Minnesota prairie-forest ecotone. Journal of Paleolimnology, 30, 151-166.
  
• Grimm, E.C. (1983) Chronology and dynamics of vegetation change in the prairie-woodland region of southern Minnesota, U.S.A. New Phytologist, 93, 311-350.
  
• Grimm, E.C. (1984) Fire and other factors controlling the Big Woods vegetation of Minnesota in the mid-nineteenth century. Ecological Monographs, 54, 291-311.
  
• Mc Andrews, J.H. (1968) Pollen evidence for the protohistoric development of the "Bigwoods" in Minnesota (U.S.A.). Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, 9, 201-211.
  
• Umbanhowar, C.E.J. (2004) Interactions of climate and fire at two sites in the northern Great Plains, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 208, 141-152.
  
• Wright, H.E., Winter, T.C., & Patten, H.L. (1963) Two pollen diagrams from southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the regional lateglacial and postglacial vegetational history. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 74, 1371-1396.