Long-term changes in aquatic plant species composition in North-eastern European Russia and Finnish Lapland, as evidenced by plant macrofossil analysis

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 224-232

  Valiranta M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aquatic plant macrofossil; Finnish Lapland; Holocene; North eastern European Russia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC PLANT; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL RECORD; LIMNOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUTRIENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPECIES FLOCK; TEMPERATURE; TREELINE; WATER LEVEL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LAPLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33746267888     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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