Diatom community response to multiple scales of Holocene climate variability in a small lake on Victoria Island, NWT, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3179-3196

  Podritske, Brandi ^a   Gajewski, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; LAKES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTS; SILICA;

ARCTIC LAKES; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LOSS-ON-IGNITION (LOI); RADIOCARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CORE ANALYSIS; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SILICA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VICTORIA ISLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAGILARIA; PSEUDOSTAUROSIRA; STAUROSIRA; STAUROSIRELLA;

EID: 36849026055     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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