Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and greenland using sediment diatom assemblages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hobbs, William O ^a,i   Telford, Richard J ^b,c   Birks, H John B ^b,c,d   Saros, Jasmine E ^e   Hazewinkel, Roderick R O ^f   Perren, Bianca B ^g   Saulnier Talbot, Émilie ^h   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^f ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ ST CROIX WATERSHED RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN; FRESH WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONDUCTANCE; DIATOM; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM; GREENLAND; LAKE; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; WINTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; NITROGEN; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956313181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010026     Document Type: Article

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