Holocene and Lateglacial summer temperature reconstruction in the Swiss Alps based on fossil assemblages of aquatic organisms: A review

Boreas

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 506-516

  Heiri, Oliver ^a   Lotter, André F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SUMMER;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 30844443265     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009480500231229     Document Type: Review

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