Rapid Lacustrine Response to Recent High Arctic Warming: A Diatom Record from Sawtooth Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-278

  Perren, Bianca B ^a,b   Bradley, Raymond S ^a   Francus, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT; SAWTOOTH LAKE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLOTELLA; CYCLOTELLA BODANICA; FRAGILARIA;

EID: 0142084755     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2003)035[0271:RLRTRH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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