Response of littoral chironomid communities and organic matter to late glacial lake-level, vegetation and climate changes at Lago dell'Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 525-539

  Millet, Laurent ^a,b   Vannière, Boris ^a   Verneaux, Valérie ^c   Magny, Michel ^a   Disnar, Jean Robert ^d   Laggoun Défarge, Fatima ^d   Walter Simonnet, Anne Véronique ^a   Bossuet, Gilles ^a   Ortu, Elena ^a   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^d UMR 7327   (France)

^e AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Italy; Lake level; Late glacial; Organic matter; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FLY; GLACIAL LAKE; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CRICOTOPUS; DIPTERA; GLYPTOTENDIPES; MICROTENDIPES;

EID: 35448940933     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-007-9088-z     Document Type: Article

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