Aquatic community response in a groundwater-fed desert lake to Holocene desiccation of the Sahara

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 2411-2425

  Eggermont, Hilde ^a   Verschuren, Dirk ^a   Fagot, Maureen ^a   Rumes, Bob ^a   Van Bocxlaer, Bert ^a   Kröpelin, Stefan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTATION; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AQUATIC COMMUNITIES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; FOSSIL RECORDS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS; FRESHWATER HABITATS; HOLOCENE; HYPERSALINE; HYPERSALINE CONDITIONS; INFERENCE MODELS; LAMINATED SEDIMENTS; SAHARA DESERTS; TRANSITION PERIODS; ZOOBENTHOS; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATA SET; DESICCATION; FLY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HOLOCENE; OASIS; PALEARCTIC REGION; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 56549107376     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.028     Document Type: Article

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