An expanded calibration model for inferring lakewater and air temperatures from fossil chironomid assemblages in northern Fennoscandia

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-294

  Olander, H ^a   Birks, H J B ^b,c   Korhola, A ^a   Blom, T ^a  

^a Laboratory of Physical Geography   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration models; Chironomidae; Holocene; Northern Fennoscandia; Ordination techniques; Palaeoclimate; Subarctic; Summer temperature; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LAKE WATER; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

FINLAND; SCANDINAVIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 0032932292     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399677918040     Document Type: Article

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