Midges and palaeotemperature reconstruction-the North American experience

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 1911-1925

  Walker, Ian R ^a   Cwynar, Les C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

HEMISPHERIC SCALES; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALAEOTEMPERATURE INFERENCE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FLY; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI;

EID: 33745834390     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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