Diatom response to recent climatic change in a high arctic lake (Char Lake, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 257-271

  Michelutti, Neal ^a   Douglas, Marianne S V ^b   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Arctic; Climate change; Cornwallis Island; Diatoms; Paleolimnology; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DIATOM; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

CANADA; CHAR LAKE; NUNAVUT;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0141454859     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00260-6     Document Type: Article

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