Deciphering recent climate change in central Mexican lake records

Climatic Change

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 169-186

  Metcalfe, Sarah ^a   Davies, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; CLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAKE; PALEOECOLOGY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34247492075     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9152-0     Document Type: Review

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