Lake ecosystem responses to Holocene climate change at the subarctic tree-line in Northern Sweden

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 393-409

  Reuss, Nina S ^a,d   Hammarlund, Dan ^a   Rundgren, Mats ^a   Segerström, Ulf ^b   Eriksson, Lars ^b   Rosén, Peter ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystems; Holocene; Light; Microfossils; Multi proxy; NIRS; Northern tree line; Paleoecology; Pigments; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FLY; HOLOCENE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROFOSSIL; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PIGMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBARCTIC REGION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TREELINE;

NORRBOTTEN; SEUKOKJAURE; SWEDEN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 77951765126     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9326-5     Document Type: Article

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