Fossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as quantitative indicators of past salinity in African lakes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 1966-1994

  Eggermont, Hilde ^a   Heiri, Oliver ^b   Verschuren, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICS;

PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (PLS); WEIGHTED MODERN ANALOGUE TECHNIQUE (WMAT); WEIGHTED-AVERAGING PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (WA-PLS);

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOINDICATOR; FLY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOSALINITY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; UGANDA; WEST AFRICA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 33745833404     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.04.011     Document Type: Article

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