Do diatoms in the Swiss Alps reflect the length of ice-cover?

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-141

  Lotter, André F ^a   Bigler, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diatoms; Ice cover; Sediment traps; Surface sediments

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; ICE COVER; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ALPS; HAGELSEEWLI; SWITZERLAND;

FRAGILARIA;

EID: 0033861908     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000270050002     Document Type: Article

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