Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 161-179

  Battarbee, Richard W ^a   Grytnes, John Arvid ^b   Thompson, Roy ^c   Appleby, Peter G ^d   Catalan, Jordi ^e   Korhola, Atte ^f   Birks, H J B ^a,b   Heegaard, Einar ^b   Lami, Andrea ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Chrysophytes; Cladocera; Climate change; Diatoms; Instrumental records; Palaeolimnology; Pigments; Remote mountain lakes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CLADOCERA;

EID: 0036592218     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020384204940     Document Type: Article

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