Postglacial midge community change and Holocene palaeotemperature reconstructions near treeline, southern British Columbia (Canada)

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 469-490

  Palmer, Samantha ^a,b   Walker, Ian ^c,d   Heinrichs, Markus ^c,e,f   Hebda, Richard ^e,f   Scudder, Geoffrey ^b  

^a DOUGLAS COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Diversity; Holocene; Midges; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoecology; Subalpine; Transfer function; Treeline

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POSTGLACIAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREELINE;

CANADA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CLADOPELMA; DICROTENDIPES; MAZAMA; MICROTENDIPES; POLYPEDILUM;

EID: 0036876794     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021644122727     Document Type: Article

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