Ecological variations in diatom assemblages in the Paleo-Kathmandu Lake linked with global and Indian monsoon climate changes for the last 600,000 years

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 377-387

  Hayashi, Tatsuya ^a   Tanimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Kuwahara, Yoshihiro ^b   Ohno, Masao ^b   Mampuku, Mami ^b   Fujii, Rie ^c   Sakai, Harutaka ^c   Yamanaka, Toshiro ^d   Maki, Takeshi ^e   Uchida, Masao ^f   Yahagi, Wataru ^g   Sakai, Hideo ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogenic silica content; Composition of diatom assemblage; Fossil diatom; Indian monsoon; Middle to late Pleistocene; Monospecific diatom assemblage; Nepal Himalaya; Paleo Kathmandu Lake; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT CORE;

ASIA; BAGMATI; EURASIA; KATHMANDU; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLOTELLA;

EID: 70349973701     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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