Vertical stratification of testate amoebae in the Elatia Mires, northern Greece: Palaeoecological evidence for a wetland response to recent climatic change, or autogenic processes?

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-364

  Payne, Richard J ^a,b   Pates, Jacqueline M ^c  

^a British School at Athens   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mires; Palaeohydrology; Peatlands; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MIRE; PALEOECOLOGY; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

DRAMA; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; ELATIA MIRES; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EUGLYPHA;

EID: 67651171332     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-008-9112-8     Document Type: Article

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