Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses to late Holocene climate change recorded in the sediments of Lochan Uaine, Cairngorms, Scotland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1040-1054

  Oldfield, Frank ^a   Battarbee, Richard W ^b   Boyle, John F ^a   Cameron, Nigel G ^b   Davis, Basil ^c   Evershed, Richard P ^d   McGovern, Andrew D ^b   Jones, Vivienne ^b   Thompson, Roy ^e  

^a née Wake), Rebecca   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CATCHMENT EROSION; COHERENT SEQUENCE; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; FOREST LIMIT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRANULOMETRIES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LATE HOLOCENE; LONG TERM; MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; QUASI-CYCLIC; SCOTLAND; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; THREE TIME-SCALES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GESTURE RECOGNITION; LAKES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ORGANIC CARBON; PRODUCTIVITY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOMARKER; CATCHMENT; CIRQUE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EROSION; GLACIAL LAKE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INSOLATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FREQUENCIES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS; GRAMPIAN HIGHLANDS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77649338930     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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