The Late Devensian Lateglacial palaeoenvironmental record from Whitrig Bog, SE Scotland. 2. Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera)

Boreas

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-308

  Brooks, Stephen J ^a   John Lowe, J ^b   Mayle, Francis E ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

CHIRONOMID; CLIMATIC CHANGE; DEVENSIAN; LAKE SEDIMENT; MIDGE ASSEMBLAGE; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

UK, SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031420449     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1997.tb00857.x     Document Type: Article

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