A palaeoecological record of recent environmental change at Big Creek Marsh, Long Point, Lake Erie

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 349-368

  Jane Bunting, M ^a,c   Duthie, Hamish C ^a   Campbell, Daniel R ^a   Warner, Barry G ^a   Turner, Laurie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impacts; Big Creek Marsh; Diatoms; Lake Erie; Long Point; Marsh; Marsh development; Paleoecology; Sediment accumulation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN IMPACT; MARSH; PALAEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT RECORD; WETLAND; WETLANDS;

BIG CREEK MARSH; CANADA; LAKE ERIE; ONTARIO;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0342618255     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(97)70918-3     Document Type: Article

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