Disentangling late-Holocene climate and land use impacts on an Austrian alpine lake using seasonal temperature anomalies, ice-cover, sedimentology, and pollen tracers

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 453-469

  Schmidt, Roland ^a   Roth, Monika ^a   Tessadri, Richard ^b   Weckström, Kaarina ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Air temperature anomalies; Alpine lake; Diatom and chrysophyte cyst inference models; Geochemistry and mineralogy; Ice cover; PCA and RDA; Pollen tracers

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEDROCK; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DIATOM; FELDSPAR; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; LAND USE; MEDIEVAL; PH; POLLEN; REDOX POTENTIAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACER;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE;

EID: 46249099910     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-007-9174-2     Document Type: Article

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