Environmental changes in the central Baltic Sea during the past 1000 years: Inferences from sedimentary records, hydrography and climate

Oceanologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-41

  Leipe, Thomas ^a   Dippner, Joachim W ^a   Hille, Sven ^a   Voss, Maren ^a   Christiansen, Christian ^b   Bartholdy, Jan ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Gotland Basin; Hydrography; Little Ice Age; Medieval and modern warm period; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYDROGRAPHY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOSALINITY; PLANKTON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SAPROPEL; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GOTLAND BASIN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 42549154369     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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