Responses of two New Hampshire (USA) lakes to human impacts in recent centuries

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 669-697

  Davis, Ronald B ^a   Anderson, Dennis S ^a   Dixit, Sushil S ^b   Appleby, Peter G ^c   Schauffler, Molly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial inputs; Catchment inputs; Catchment soils; Chrysophytes; Diatoms; Flushing rates; Geochemistry; Human impacts; New Hampshire; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATCHMENT; DIATOM; DRAINAGE BASIN; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST FIRE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIMNOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; TRACE METAL; TROPHIC STATUS;

ANTARCTICA; BEAVER LAKE; EAST ANTARCTICA; HATCH POND; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33745589246     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-005-4505-7     Document Type: Article

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