A preliminary record of the historical seabird population in the Larsemann hills, East Antarctica, From geochemical analyses of Mochou Lake sediments

Boreas

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-197

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Xie, Zhouqing ^a   Yin, Xuebin ^a   Zhu, Renbin ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEABIRD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LARSEMANN HILLS; MIRROR PENINSULA;

EID: 34347263745     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.tb01191.x     Document Type: Article

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