Diatom community responses to late-Holocene climatic variability, Baffin Island, Canada: A comparison of numerical approaches

Holocene

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-37

  Wolfe, Alexander P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Canadian Arctic; Diatoms; Late Holocene; Neoglacial; Numerical methods; Palaeoclimate; Palaeolimnology; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CANADA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037240018     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603h1592rp     Document Type: Article

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