Chemical and biological response of two small lakes in the Khumbu Valley, Himalayas (Nepal) to short-term variability and climatic change as detected by long-term monitoring and paleolimnological methods

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 648, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 189-205

  Lami, Andrea ^a   Marchetto, Aldo ^a   Musazzi, Simona ^a   Salerno, Franco ^b   Tartari, Gianni ^b   Guilizzoni, Piero ^a   Rogora, Michela ^a   Tartari, Gabriele A ^a  

^a CNR Institute of Ecosystem Study   (Italy)

^b WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Himalayas; Lakes; Limnology; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL DATA; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBED ECOSYSTEMS; HIMALAYAS; HISTORICAL CHANGES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAKE WATERS; LAKEWATER CHEMISTRY; LOCAL CLIMATE; LONG TERM MONITORING; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POLAR REGIONS; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; REGIONAL VARIATION; REMOTE REGIONS; SOUTH ASIA; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

AIR QUALITY; BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LANDFORMS; SURVEYS; WATER CONTENT;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKE WATER; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POLAR REGION; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WILDERNESS AREA;

KHUMBU VALLEY; NEPAL; SAGARMATHA [(ADS) NEPAL];

ALGAE;

EID: 77952011182     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0262-3     Document Type: Article

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