Late-glacial chironomid-based temperature reconstructions for Lago Piccolo di Avigliana in the southwestern Alps (Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 207-223

  Larocque, I ^a   Finsinger, W ^b,c  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Italy; Late Glacial; Temperature; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLY; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 36849070906     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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