Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the high arctic

The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 249-266

  Douglas, Marianne S V ^a   Smol, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511763175.014     Document Type: Chapter

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