Reconstructing fish populations using Chaoborus (Diptera: Chaoboridae) remains - a review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 2013-2023

  Sweetman, Jon N ^a   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FISHERIES; LAKES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTS;

ACIDIFICATION; AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; FISH POPULATIONS; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

FISH; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT;

CHAOBORIDAE; CHAOBORUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; DIPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745905336     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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