Recent environmental changes on Banks Island (N.W.T., Canadian Arctic) quantified using fossil diatom assemblages

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 385-398

  Lim, Darlene S S ^a,b   Smol, John P ^c   Douglas, Marianne S V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Banks Island; Climate change; Diatoms; Nitrogen; Paleolimnology; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; DOMINANCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ICE COVER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NITROGEN; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TURNOVER; WARMING;

BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

ACHNANTHES; ACHNANTHES MINUTISSIMA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DENTICULA; STAUROSIRA CONSTRUENS;

EID: 46249126715     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-007-9168-0     Document Type: Article

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