Recent and abrupt environmental change in the Florida everglades indicated from siliceous microfossils

Wetlands

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 346-356

  Slate, Jennifer E ^a   Stevenson, R Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysophytes; Diatoms; Eutrophication; Everglades; Paleoecology; pH; Phytoliths; Sponges; Water depth

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

ANHETEROMEYENIA RYDERI; EUNOTIA;

EID: 0033945614     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2000)020[0346:RAAECI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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