Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18443-18446

  Axford, Yarrow ^a   Briner, Jason P ^b   Cooke, Colin A ^c   Francis, Donna R ^d   Michelutti, Neal ^e   Miller, Gifford H ^a   Smol, John P ^e   Thomas, Elizabeth K ^b   Wilson, Cheryl R ^e   Wolfe, Alexander P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Climate change; Diatoms; Paleolimnology; Polar

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL ICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GLACIAL PERIOD; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE SEDIMENT; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUMMER; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; FRESH WATER; FRESHWATER BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 73249121262     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907094106     Document Type: Article

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