Long and short-time scale climatic variability in the last 5500years in Africa according to modern and fossil diatoms from Lake Ossa (Western Cameroon)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 356-367

  Nguetsop, Victor François ^a   Servant Vildary, Simone ^b   Servant, Michel ^b   Roux, Maurice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Holocene; Lake Ossa; Modern and fossil diatoms; Short term climatic changes; West Cameroon

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CHANGE; CAMEROON; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; CLOUD COVER; DEGREE OF MIXING; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; DOMINANT SPECIES; DRY SEASONS; FLAT AREA; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; METEORIC WATERS; MODERN AND FOSSIL DIATOMS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PH VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRANSFER; RAINY SEASONS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SHORT-TERM CLIMATIC CHANGES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAKES; MIXING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PH; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; TIMESCALE; WATER LEVEL;

CAMEROON;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77957276042     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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