Tracking long-term changes in climate using algal indicators in lake sediments

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 986-1011

  Smol, J P ^a   Cumming, B F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chrysophytes; Climate change; Diatoms; Environmental change; Fossils; Lakes; Paleoclimatology; Paleolimnology; Pigments; Sed iments; Stomatocysts

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALGA GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIMNOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; SALINITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CONIFERALES;

EID: 0034492167     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2000.00049.x     Document Type: Review

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