Caveats on the use of paleolimnology to infer Pacific salmon returns

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2053-2061

  Hobbs, William O ^a   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCHTHON; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SALMONID; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER LAKE; NORTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 35348945391     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.5.2053     Document Type: Article

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