Late Glacial and Holocene temperature changes at Egelsee, Switzerland, reconstructed using subfossil chironomids

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 649-666

  Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^a,c   Heiri, Oliver ^b   Wehrli, Michael ^c  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chironomid inferred temperature; Ecology of Corynocera ambigua; Swiss training set; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBFOSSIL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EGELSEE; SWITZERLAND; ZUG [SWITZERLAND];

CHIRONOMIDAE; CORYNOCERA AMBIGUA;

EID: 77952670780     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-009-9358-z     Document Type: Article

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