From controversy to consensus: Making the case for recent climate change in the Arctic using lake sediments

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 466-474

  Smol, John P ^a   Douglas, Marianne S V ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE COVER; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POND; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

ARCTIC;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 35948932939     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/060162     Document Type: Review

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