Repeated short-term bioproductivity changes in a coastal lake on Store Koldewey, northeast Greenland: An indicator of varying sea-ice coverage?

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 653-663

  Klug, Martin ^a   Bennike, Ole ^b   Wagner, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aquatic mosses; Bioproductivity; East Greenland Current; Holocene.; Lake sediments; Northeast Greenland; Palaeoclimate; Sea ice coverage

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; DATING METHOD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MOSS; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; GREENLAND; STORE KOLDEWEY;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 67749139854     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609104040     Document Type: Article

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